Il-21 vector-tethering nanofibers for cancer treatment including osteosarcoma

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Gong, Xuan
Jiang, Jianhao
Ceylan, Muhammet
Dart, Bradley
Asmatulu, Ramazan
Yang, Shang-You
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2019-05
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Conference paper
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Chemotherapy , Diseases , Gene expression , Gene transfer , Nanofibers , Transplantation (surgical) , Tumors
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Gong, Xuan; Jiang, Jianhao; Ceylan, Muhammet; Dart, Bradley; Asmatulu, Ramazan; Yang, Shang-You. 2019. Il-21 vector-tethering nanofibers for cancer treatment including osteosarcoma. 42nd Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition 2019, vol. 40:pt. 1:pp 573
Abstract

The first line of treatment regime for bone cancers including osteosarcoma is surgical removal of the primary tumor, scaffold and/or bone fillers are required to fill the bone void during the surgery. Development and advancement of adjuvant chemotherapy and immunotherapy promotes tumoricidal activity and improves patients’ survival rate. IL-21 is a recently identified cytokine that has strong effects on both CD8+ and CD4+ cells and could be a good candidate for cancer immune therapy. The current study was to develop and characterize an electro-spun PCL nanofiber membrane with IL-21 plasmid vectors that can be used as a wrapping material on the bone tumor removal surgery, and serves as a gene delivery tool to provide persistent IL-21 expression at the site to promote local immunity.

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Society for Biomaterials
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42nd Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition 2019;v.40:pt.1
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1526-7547
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