Journal
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 204-210Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2014.17
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- American Heart Association [11SDG7490013]
- National Institutes of Health [K25HL111157, R01 HL109439, P01 P01HL77806]
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Inflammatory diseases such as acute lung injury and ischaemic tissue injury are caused by the adhesion of a type of white blood cell-polymorphonuclear neutrophils-to the lining of the circulatory system or vascular endothelium and unchecked neutrophil transmigration(1),(2). Nanoparticle-mediated targeting of activated neutrophils on vascular endothelial cells at the site of injury may be a useful means of directly inactivating neutrophil transmigration and hence mitigating vascular inflammation(3). Here, we report a method employing drug-loaded albumin nanoparticles, which efficiently deliver drugs into neutrophils adherent to the surface of the inflamed endothelium. Using intravital microscopy of tumour necrosis factor-a-challenged mouse cremaster post-capillary venules, we demonstrate that fluorescently tagged albumin nanoparticles are largely internalized by neutrophils adherent to the activated endothelium via cell surface Fc gamma receptors. Administration of albumin nanoparticles loaded with the spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor, piceatannol, which blocks `outside- in' beta 2 integrin signalling in leukocytes, detached the adherent neutrophils and elicited their release into the circulation. Thus, internalization of drug-loaded albumin nanoparticles into neutrophils inactivates the pro-inflammatory function of activated neutrophils, thereby offering a promising approach for treating inflammatory diseases resulting from inappropriate neutrophil sequestration and activation.
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