{"title":"mRNA lipid nanoparticles induce immune tolerance to treat human diseases.","authors":"Wei Cao, Tian Xia","doi":"10.1515/mr-2023-0008","DOIUrl":"10.1515/mr-2023-0008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rapid developments in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mRNA vaccine showcased the power of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery systems in fighting infectious diseases. In addition, mRNA therapeutics are also in development for cancer immunotherapy. Recently, mRNA therapy has been expanded to induce immune tolerance, the opposite of immune-boosting effects, to treat diseases involving enhanced immune responses including allergies and autoimmune diseases. mRNA LNPs have been used to treat peanut allergy by us and autoimmune experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by Ugur Sahin. It is expected that more and more research is going to delve into the immune tolerance field for allergies and autoimmune diseases, where effective therapies are in short supply.</p>","PeriodicalId":74151,"journal":{"name":"Medical review (Berlin, Germany)","volume":"3 2","pages":"180-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/8f/e9/mr-3-2-mr-2023-0008.PMC10471105.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10311384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ya-Nan Fan, Gui Zhao, Yue Zhang, Qian-Ni Ye, Yi-Qun Sun, Song Shen, Yang Liu, Cong-Fei Xu, Jun Wang
{"title":"Progress in nanoparticle-based regulation of immune cells.","authors":"Ya-Nan Fan, Gui Zhao, Yue Zhang, Qian-Ni Ye, Yi-Qun Sun, Song Shen, Yang Liu, Cong-Fei Xu, Jun Wang","doi":"10.1515/mr-2022-0047","DOIUrl":"10.1515/mr-2022-0047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Immune cells are indispensable defenders of the human body, clearing exogenous pathogens and toxicities or endogenous malignant and aging cells. Immune cell dysfunction can cause an inability to recognize, react, and remove these hazards, resulting in cancers, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, and infections. Immune cells regulation has shown great promise in treating disease, and immune agonists are usually used to treat cancers and infections caused by immune suppression. In contrast, immunosuppressants are used to treat inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. However, the key to maintaining health is to restore balance to the immune system, as excessive activation or inhibition of immune cells is a common complication of immunotherapy. Nanoparticles are efficient drug delivery systems widely used to deliver small molecule inhibitors, nucleic acid, and proteins. Using nanoparticles for the targeted delivery of drugs to immune cells provides opportunities to regulate immune cell function. In this review, we summarize the current progress of nanoparticle-based strategies for regulating immune function and discuss the prospects of future nanoparticle design to improve immunotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":74151,"journal":{"name":"Medical review (Berlin, Germany)","volume":"3 2","pages":"152-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/be/ae/mr-3-2-mr-2022-0047.PMC10471115.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10311383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Versatile biomimetic nanomedicine for treating cancer and inflammation disease.","authors":"Zhiwen Zhao, Dangge Wang, Yaping Li","doi":"10.1515/mr-2022-0046","DOIUrl":"10.1515/mr-2022-0046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nanosized drug delivery systems (NDDSs) have emerged as a powerful tool to optimize drug delivery in complex diseases, including cancer and inflammation. However, the therapeutic effect of NDDSs is still far from satisfactory due to their poor circulation time, low delivery efficiency, and innate toxicity. Fortunately, biomimetic approaches offer new opportunities to develop nanomedicine, which is derived from a variety of native biomolecules including cells, exosomes, bacteria, and so on. Since inheriting the superior biocompatibility and versatile functions of natural materials, biomimetic nanomedicine can mimic biological processes, prolong blood circulation, and lower immunogenicity, serving as a desired platform for precise drug delivery for treating cancer and inflammatory disease. In this review, we outline recent advances in biomimetic NDDSs, which consist of two concepts: biomimetic exterior camouflage and bioidentical molecule construction. We summarize engineering strategies that further functionalized current biomimetic NDDSs. A series of functional biomimetic NDDSs created by our group are introduced. We conclude with an outlook on remaining challenges and possible directions for biomimetic NDDSs. We hope that better technologies can be inspired and invented to advance drug delivery systems for cancer and inflammation therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":74151,"journal":{"name":"Medical review (Berlin, Germany)","volume":"3 2","pages":"123-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/3f/12/mr-3-2-mr-2022-0046.PMC10471090.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10311381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuanzhen Su, Guanyu Jin, Huicong Zhou, Zhaofan Yang, Lanqing Wang, Zi Mei, Qionghua Jin, Shixian Lv, Xuesi Chen
{"title":"Development of stimuli responsive polymeric nanomedicines modulating tumor microenvironment for improved cancer therapy.","authors":"Yuanzhen Su, Guanyu Jin, Huicong Zhou, Zhaofan Yang, Lanqing Wang, Zi Mei, Qionghua Jin, Shixian Lv, Xuesi Chen","doi":"10.1515/mr-2022-0048","DOIUrl":"10.1515/mr-2022-0048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The complexity of the tumor microenvironment (TME) severely hinders the therapeutic effects of various cancer treatment modalities. The TME differs from normal tissues owing to the presence of hypoxia, low pH, and immune-suppressive characteristics. Modulation of the TME to reverse tumor growth equilibrium is considered an effective way to treat tumors. Recently, polymeric nanomedicines have been widely used in cancer therapy, because their synthesis can be controlled and they are highly modifiable, and have demonstrated great potential to remodel the TME. In this review, we outline the application of various stimuli responsive polymeric nanomedicines to modulate the TME, aiming to provide insights for the design of the next generation of polymeric nanomedicines and promote the development of polymeric nanomedicines for cancer therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":74151,"journal":{"name":"Medical review (Berlin, Germany)","volume":"3 1","pages":"4-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/45/6b/mr-3-1-mr-2022-0048.PMC10471091.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10363194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuanjun Zhu, Yuefeng Zhu, Tianmiao Cao, Xiaoyu Liu, Xiaoyan Liu, Yi Yan, Yujie Shi, Jian-Cheng Wang
{"title":"Ferritin-based nanomedicine for disease treatment.","authors":"Yuanjun Zhu, Yuefeng Zhu, Tianmiao Cao, Xiaoyu Liu, Xiaoyan Liu, Yi Yan, Yujie Shi, Jian-Cheng Wang","doi":"10.1515/mr-2023-0001","DOIUrl":"10.1515/mr-2023-0001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ferritin is an endogenous protein which is self-assembled by 24 subunits into a highly uniform nanocage structure. Due to the drug-encapsulating ability in the hollow inner cavity and abundant modification sites on the outer surface, ferritin nanocage has been demonstrated great potential to become a multi-functional nanomedicine platform. Its good biocompatibility, low toxicity and immunogenicity, intrinsic tumor-targeting ability, high stability, low cost and massive production, together make ferritin nanocage stand out from other nanocarriers. In this review, we summarized ferritin-based nanomedicine in field of disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention. The different types of drugs to be loaded in ferritin, as well as drug-loading methods were classified. The strategies for site-specific and non-specific functional modification of ferritin were investigated, then the application of ferritin for disease imaging, drug delivery and vaccine development were discussed. Finally, the challenges restricting the clinical translation of ferritin-based nanomedicines were analyzed.</p>","PeriodicalId":74151,"journal":{"name":"Medical review (Berlin, Germany)","volume":"3 1","pages":"49-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/fb/af/mr-3-1-mr-2023-0001.PMC10471093.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10313079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Precise genome editing with base editors.","authors":"Hongcai Liu, Yao Zhu, Minjie Li, Zhimin Gu","doi":"10.1515/mr-2022-0044","DOIUrl":"10.1515/mr-2022-0044","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Single-nucleotide variants account for about half of known pathogenic genetic variants in human. Genome editing strategies by reversing pathogenic point mutations with minimum side effects have great therapeutic potential and are now being actively pursued. The emerge of precise and efficient genome editing strategies such as base editing and prime editing provide powerful tools for nucleotide conversion without inducing double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs), which have shown great potential for curing genetic disorders. A diverse toolkit of base editors has been developed to improve the editing efficiency and accuracy in different context of application. Here, we summarized the evolving of base editors (BEs), their limitations and future perspective of base editing-based therapeutic strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":74151,"journal":{"name":"Medical review (Berlin, Germany)","volume":"3 1","pages":"75-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/c8/4e/mr-3-1-mr-2022-0044.PMC10471085.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10363189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application and prospect of artificial intellingence in diabetes care.","authors":"Weiping Jia, Edwin B Fisher","doi":"10.1515/mr-2022-0039","DOIUrl":"10.1515/mr-2022-0039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diabetes is one of the fastest-growing non-communicable diseases, becoming an important public health concern worldwide as well as in China. Currently, China has the largest population living with diabetes. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fast-growing field and its applications to diabetes could enable the delivery of better management services for people with diabetes. This perspective summarized the latest findings of digital technologies and AI use in the following areas of diabetes care, mainly including screening and risk predictions of diabetes and diabetic complications, precise monitoring and intervention combined with new technologies, and mobile health application in self-management support for people with diabetes. Challenges to promote further use of AI in diabetes care included data standardization and integration, performance of AI-based medical devices, motivation of patients, and sensitivity to privacy. In summary, although the AI applications in clinical practice is still at an early stage, we are moving toward a new paradigm for diabetes care with the rapid development and emerging application of AI.</p>","PeriodicalId":74151,"journal":{"name":"Medical review (Berlin, Germany)","volume":"3 1","pages":"102-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/90/81/mr-3-1-mr-2022-0039.PMC10471118.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10657918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}