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ReviewActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B2025

Engineered plant extracellular vesicles: Emerging nanoplatforms for combinational cancer immunotherapy.

Fucai Chen, Rongrong Bao, Wanyi Yang, Yijing Lu, Jiaxin Guo, Wenjing Chen, Jiale Li, Kuanhan Feng, Wen Zhang, Liuqing Di and 2 more

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Review in Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Fucai ChenSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Rongrong BaoSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Wanyi YangSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Yijing LuSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Jiaxin GuoSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Wenjing ChenSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Jiale LiSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Kuanhan FengSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Wen ZhangSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Liuqing DiSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.
Liang FengAffiliated Jiangning Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China.
Ruoning WangSchool of Pharmacy, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210023, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plant-derived extracellular vesicles (PDEVs), describe a group of nanoparticles released by plants. These particles are characterized by a lipid bilayer structure containing various proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and unique metabolites. Although the study on PDEVs is relatively new, having only been around for ten years, they have shown promising development prospects in both basic research and clinical transformation areas. Evidence suggests that PDEVs have excellent application prospects in regulating inflammation and treating tumors. Their distinctive, vesicle-mimicking architecture and stellar biocompatibility render them prime candidates for ferrying various anti-cancer agents, including RNA, proteins, and conventional chemotherapy drugs. Increasingly, studies have shown that PDEVs can be engineered as an innovative platform for combination cancer immunotherapy. Consequently, this paper provides an extensive summary of current developments in engineering methods and strategies for PDEVs in cancer treatment and combined cancer immune therapeutics. The essential characteristics of PDEVs, including the biogenesis process and components, as well as their anti-tumor activity and mechanism, are summarized. Finally, the

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Cancer immunotherapyClinical transformationCombinational cancer immunotherapyDrug loading techniquesEngineering strategiesNovel nanoplatformsPharmacokineticsPlant-derived extracellular vesicles

Identifiers

PMID41311380
PMCPMC12648039

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Registered trials

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