Endocytosis and intracellular trafficking as gateways for nanomedicine delivery: opportunities and challenges
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Duncan, Ruth and Richardson, Simon 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7927-0649
(2012)
Endocytosis and intracellular trafficking as gateways for nanomedicine delivery: opportunities and challenges.
Molecular Pharmaceutics, 9 (9).
pp. 2380-2402.
ISSN 1543-8384 (Print), 1543-8392 (Online)
(doi:10.1021/mp300293n)
Abstract
More than 40 nanomedicines are already in routine clinical use with a growing number following in preclinical and clinical development. The therapeutic objectives are often enhanced disease- specific targeting (with simultaneously reduced access to sites of toxicity) and, especially in the case of macromolecular biotech drugs, improving access to intracellular pharmacological target receptors. Successful navigation of the endocytic pathways is usually a prerequisite to achieve these goals. Thus a comprehensive understanding of endocytosis and intracellular trafficking pathways in both the target and bystander normal cell type(s) is essential to enable optimal nanomedicine design. It is becoming evident that endocytic pathways can become disregulated in disease and this, together with the potential changes induced during exposure to the nanocarrier itself, has the potential to significantly impact nanomedicine performance in terms of safety and efficacy. Here we overview the endomembrane trafficking pathways, discuss the methods used to determine and quantitate the intracellular fate of nanomedicines, and review the current status of lysosomotropic and endosomotropic delivery. Based on the lessons learned during more than 3 decades of clinical development, the need to use endocytosis-relevant clinical biomarkers to better select those patients most likely to benefit from nanomedicine therapy is also discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | [1] First published online: 30 July 2012. [2] Published in print: 4 September 2012. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | endocytosis, nanomedicine, endosome, lysosome, trafficking, lysosomotropic delivery, endosomotropic delivery |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: | Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM) |
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| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2021 04:46 |
| URI: | http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/10608 |
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