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Red blood cell-hitchhiking boosts delivery of nanocarriers to chosen organs by orders of magnitude
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Drug delivery by nanocarriers (NCs) has long been stymied by dominant liver uptake and limited target organ deposition, even when NCs are targeted using affinity moieties. Here we report a universal solution: red blood cell (RBC)-hitchhiking (RH), in which NCs adsorbed onto the RBCs transfer from RBCs to the first organ downstream of the intravascular injection. RH improves delivery for a wide range of NCs and even viral vectors. For example, RH injected intravenously increases liposome uptake in the first downstream organ, lungs, by ~40-fold compared with free NCs. Intra-carotid artery injection of RH NCs delivers >10% of the injected NC dose to the brain, ~10× higher than that achieved with affinity moieties. Further, RH works in mice, pigs, and ex vivo human lungs without causing RBC or end-organ toxicities. Thus, RH is a clinically translatable platform technology poised to augment drug delivery in acute lung disease, stroke, and several other diseases.
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- Authors
- Brenner, J. S., Pan, D. C., Myerson, J. W., Marcos-Contreras, O. A., Villa, C. H., Patel, P., Hekierski, H., Chatterjee, S., Tao, J.-Q., Parhiz, H., Bhamidipati, K., Uhler, T. G., Hood, E. D., Kiseleva, R. Y., Shuvaev, V. S., Shuvaeva, T., Khoshnejad, M., Johnston, I., Gregory, J. V., Lahann, J., Wang, T., Cantu, E., Armstead, W. M., Mitragotri, S., & Muzykantov, V.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2018-07-11
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- PMC
- PMC6041332
- Cited by
- 363
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (1RO1 HL125462-02)
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