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HUMAN GENE THERAPY
卷 27, 期 10, 页码 784-791出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2016.066
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- Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC) [14266]
- Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
- Istituto Toscano Tumori
- Federazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (FIRC)
Cell therapies are treatments in which stem or progenitor cells are stimulated to differentiate into specialized cells able to home to and repair damaged tissues. After their discovery, endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) stimulated worldwide interest as possible vehicles to perform autologous cell therapy of tumors. Taking into account the tumor-homing properties of EPCs, two different approaches to control cancer progression have been pursued by combining cell-based therapy with gene therapy or with nanomedicine. The first approach is based on the possibility of engineering EPCs to express different transgenes, and the second is based on the capacity of EPCs to take up nanomaterials. Here we review the most important progress covering the following issues: the characterization of bona fide endothelial progenitor cells, their role in tumor vascularization and metastasis, and preclinical data about their use in cell-based tumor therapy, considering antiangiogenic, suicide, immune-stimulating, and oncolytic virus gene therapy. The mixed approach of EPC cell therapy and nanomedicine is discussed in terms of plasmonic-dependent thermoablation and molecular imaging.
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