Blood TfR+ exosomes separated by a pH-responsive method deliver chemotherapeutics for tumor therapy

Lijun Yang, Donglin Han, Qi Zhan, Xueping Li, Peipei Shan, Yunjie Hu, Han Ding, Yu Wang, Lei Zhang, Yuan Zhang,

Theranostics · 2019 · 90 citations · 32 references

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Taking advantage of the pH-responsive binding and disaggregation characteristics of Tf and TfR, the SMNC-based method can precisely separate blood TfR+ exosomes with high purity and in their original state. The resulting blood TfR+ exosomes showed excellent bio-safety and enable the efficient delivery of chemotherapeutics to tumors, facilitating the clinical translation of exosome-based drug delivery systems.

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