Background:
How to achieve high targeting efficiency for drug delivery system is still one of the most important
issues that tumor diagnosis and non-surgical therapies faced. Although nanoparticle-based drug delivery system made an
amount of progress in extending circulation time, improving targetability, controlled drug release etc., yet the targeting efficiency remained low, and the development was limited to reduce side effects with overall survival rates unchanged or improved a little.
Objective:
This paper aims to review current researches on the cell-driven drug delivery systems, and discuss the potential
obstacles and directions for cell-based cancer therapies and diagnosis.
Methods:
More than one hundred references were collected, and this paper focused on red blood cells, monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, natural killer cells, T lymphocytes, mesenchymal stem cells, cell membrane, artificial cells and extracellular vesicles, then summarized 1) the utilizable properties, 2) balancing cargo-loading amounts and cell function, 3) cascade strategies for targetability improvement.
Main findings: circulatory cells and their derivatives were featured by good biocompatibility, long circulation time in
blood, unique chemo-migration and penetration ability. On the base of backpack and encapsulation approach, cargo loading
amounts and cell function could be balanced through regulating membrane receptors, particle material/size/shape/structure
and incubation temperature, etc. The cell-driven drug delivery system met most of the demands that nanoparticle-based delivery system failed to for effective tumortropic delivery.
Conclusion:
Despite of new challenges, cell-driven drug delivery system generally brought great benefits to and shed a light
on for cancer therapy and diagnosis.
Pi‐Stacking Enhances Stability, Scalability of Formation, Control over Flexibility, and Circulation Time of Polymeric Filamentous Nanocarriers
