Recent advances and challenges of repurposing nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems to enhance cancer immunotherapy
- Authors
- Lim, Seungho; Park, Jooho; Shim, Man Kyu; Um, Wooram; Yoon, Hong Yeol; Ryu, Ju Hee; Lim, Dong-Kwon; Kim, Kwangmeyung
- Issue Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- IVYSPRING INT PUBL
- Keywords
- Nanoparticles; drug delivery system; immunogenic cell death; adjuvants; cytokines and cancer immunotherapy
- Citation
- THERANOSTICS, v.9, no.25, pp.7906 - 7923
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- THERANOSTICS
- Volume
- 9
- Number
- 25
- Start Page
- 7906
- End Page
- 7923
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/68916
- DOI
- 10.7150/thno.38425
- ISSN
- 1838-7640
- Abstract
- Cancer immunotherapy is an attractive treatment option under clinical settings. However, the major challenges of immunotherapy include limited patient response, limited tumor specificity, immune-related adverse events, and immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. Therefore, nanoparticle (NP)-based drug delivery has been used to not only increase the efficacy of immunotherapeutic agents, but it also significantly reduces the toxicity. In particular, NP-based drug delivery systems alter the pharmacokinetic (PK) profile of encapsulated or conjugated immunotherapeutic agents to targeted cancer cells or immune cells and facilitate the delivery of multiple therapeutic combinations to targeted cells using single NPs. Recently, advanced NP-based drug delivery systems were effectively utilized in cancer immunotherapy to reduce the toxic side effects and immune-related adverse events. Repurposing these NPs as delivery systems of immunotherapeutic agents may overcome the limitations of current cancer immunotherapy. In this review, we focus on recent advances in NP-based immunotherapeutic delivery systems, such as immunogenic cell death (ICD)-inducing drugs, cytokines and adjuvants for promising cancer immunotherapy. Finally, we discuss the challenges facing current NP-based drug delivery systems that need to be addressed for successful clinical application.
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