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SUBMITTER: Xie X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6889386 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xie Xiaodong X Nie Huifang H Zhou Yu Y Lian Shu S Mei Hao H Lu Yusheng Y Dong Haiyan H Li Fengqiao F Li Tao T Li Bifei B Wang Jie J Lin Min M Wang Chaihung C Shao Jingwei J Gao Yu Y Chen Jianming J Xie Fangwei F Jia Lee L
Nature communications 20191202 1
There are disease-causing biohazards in the blood that cannot be treated with modern medicines. Here we show that an intelligently designed safe biomaterial can precisely identify, tow and dump a targeted biohazard from the blood into the small intestine. Positively charged mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) functionalized with EGFR-targeting aptamers (MSN-AP) specifically recognize and bind blood-borne negatively charged oncogenic exosomes (A-Exo), and tow A-Exo across hepatobiliary layers ...[more]