Introduction: Chemotherapy plays an important role in antitumour therapy, but causes serious adverse reactions. So, drug delivery system (DDS) with cell-targeting ability is an important method to reduce adverse reactions while ensuring the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Synthetic drug carriers and DDSs based on cells have proven safety and efficacy, but they also have many deficiencies or limitations. Cell membrane capsules (CMCs), which are based on extracellular vesicles (EVs), are a promising biomimetic DDS that retains some cell membrane channels and cytoplasmic functions, with escape macrophage phagocytosis.
Areas covered: The EVs for constructing CMCs can be prepared by natural secretion, chemical-induced budding, nanofilter membrane extrusion and similar methods and are isolated and purified by a variety of methods such as centrifugation and liquid chromatography. CMCs can target the tumour cells either spontaneously or through targeting modifications using proteins or aptamers to actively target the tumour cells. CMCs can be directly wrapped with chemicals, photosensitizers, RNA, proteins and other ingredients, or they can be loaded with antitumour agent-loaded synthetic nanoparticles, which are delivered to the target cells to play a specific role.
Expert opinion: This review describes the concept, function, characteristics, origins, and manufacturing methods of CMCs and their application in antitumour therapy. 相似文献
Objective. To ascertain the reported toxicity of current United Kingdom (UK) household products following the launch of new products, such as liquid detergent capsules, and the manufacture of more concentrated formulations. Methods. Between 1 March 2008 and 30 April 2009 the UK National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) collected prospectively 5939 telephone enquiries relating to household products, approximately 10% of all telephone enquiries received over this period. Results. The majority of enquiries (n =?3893; 65.5%) concerned children 5 years of age or less and were received predominantly from hospitals (n =?1905; 32.1%), general practitioners (n =?1768; 29.8%) and NHS Direct/NHS 24 (n =?1694; 28.5%). The majority of exposures occurred at home (n =?5795; 97.6%); most exposures were accidental (n =?5561; 93.6%). Liquid detergent capsules were most commonly involved (n =?647), followed by bleaches (n =?481), air fresheners (n =?429), multipurpose cleaners (n =?408), dishwasher products (n =?399) and descalers (n =?397). Exposure to household products occurred mainly as a result of ingestion (n =?4616; 75.8%), with eye contact (n =?513; 8.4%), inhalation (n =?420; 6.9%) and skin contact (n =?187; 3.1%) being less common; 5.1% (n =?313) of enquiries involved multiple routes of exposure. The most commonly reported features were vomiting (ingestion), pain (eye contact), dyspnoea (inhalation) and burns (skin contact). In 5840 of 5939 enquiries the Poisoning Severity Score (PSS) was known. The majority of patients (n =?4117; 70.5%) were asymptomatic (PSS 0), 28.0% (n =?1638) developed minor features (PSS 1), 1.3% (75 patients) developed moderate features (PSS 2) and 0.15% (nine patients) developed serious features (PSS 3). Four of these nine patients made a complete recovery, two died from exposure to drain cleaner and PVC solvent cleaner; the outcome in three was unknown. Conclusion. In the UK, advice from the NPIS is sought commonly regarding household products, but such exposures only rarely result in clinically serious features. As 65.5% of exposures were in children less than 5 years of age, parents clearly have an important role to play in ensuring that household products are stored safely at all times. 相似文献