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ReviewPharmaceutics2025

Smart Vesicle Therapeutics: Engineering Precision at the Nanoscale.

Luciano A Benedini, Paula V Messina

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing 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

5 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

2 authors.

Luciano A BenediniINQUISUR-CONICET, Department of Chemistry, Universidad Nacional Del Sur, Bahía Blanca B8000CPB, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-5708-3463
Paula V MessinaINQUISUR-CONICET, Department of Chemistry, Universidad Nacional Del Sur, Bahía Blanca B8000CPB, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0001-7533-453X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Smart vesicle therapeutics represent a transformative frontier in nanomedicine, offering precise, biocompatible, and adaptable platforms for drug delivery and theranostic applications. This review explores recent advances in the design and engineering of liposomes, niosomes, polymersomes, and extracellular vesicles (EVs), emphasizing their capacity to integrate therapeutic and diagnostic functions within a single nanoscale system. By tailoring vesicle size, composition, and surface chemistry, researchers have achieved improved pharmacokinetics, reduced immunogenicity, and fine-tuned control of drug release. Stimuli-responsive vesicles activated by pH, temperature, and redox gradients, or external fields enable spatiotemporal regulation of therapeutic action, while hybrid bio-inspired systems merge synthetic stability with natural targeting and biocompatibility. Theranostic vesicles further enhance precision medicine by allowing real-time imaging, monitoring, and adaptive control of treatment efficacy. Despite these advances, challenges in large-scale production, reproducibility, and regulatory standardization still limit clinical translation. Emerging solutions-such as microfluidic manufacturing, artificial intelligence-guided optimization, and multimodal imaging integration-are accelerating the development of personalized, high-performance vesicular therapeutics. Altogether, smart vesicle platforms exemplify the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and clinical science, driving the next generation of precision therapies that are safer, more effective, and tailored to individual patient needs.

Indexed as

active and passive targetingexosomesextracellular vesiclesfunctionalizationisolation/synthesisliposomesmodified releaseniosomespharmacokineticspolymersomes

Identifiers

PMID41471103
PMCPMC12736842

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