Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Diagnostics, The First Dongguan Affiliated Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China.
Institute of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medical Technology, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, China.
Front Immunol. 2022 Jul 26;13:956181. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.956181. eCollection 2022.
Current chemotherapy strategies used in clinic appear with lots of disadvantages due to the low targeting effects of drugs and strong side effects, which significantly restricts the drug potency, causes multiple dysfunctions in the body, and even drives the emergence of diseases. Immunotherapy has been proved to boost the body's innate and adaptive defenses for more effective disease control and treatment. As a trace element, selenium plays vital roles in human health by regulating the antioxidant defense, enzyme activity, and immune response through various specific pathways. Profiting from novel nanotechnology, selenium nanoparticles have been widely developed to reveal great potential in anticancer, antibacterial, and anti-inflammation treatments. More interestingly, increasing evidence has also shown that functional selenium nanoparticles can be applied for potential immunotherapy, which would achieve more effective treatment efficiency as adjunctive therapy strategies for the current chemotherapy. By directly interacting with innate immune cells, such as macrophages, dendritic cells, and natural killer cells, selenium nanoparticles can regulate innate immunity to intervene disease developments, which were reported to boost the anticancer, anti-infection, and anti-inflammation treatments. Moreover, selenium nanoparticles can also activate and recover different T cells for adaptive immunity regulations to enhance their cytotoxic to combat cancer cells, indicating the potential of selenium nanoparticles for potential immunotherapy strategy development. Here, aiming to enhance our understanding of the potential immunotherapy strategy development based on Se NPs, this review will summarize the immunological regulation effects of selenium nanoparticles and the application of selenium nanoparticle-based immunotherapy strategies. Furthermore, we will discuss the advancing perspective of selenium nanoparticle-based potential immunotherapy as a kind of novel adjunctive therapy to enhance the efficiency of current chemotherapies and also introduce the current obstacles for the development of selenium nanoparticles for potential immunotherapy strategy development. This work is expected to promote the future research on selenium nanoparticle-assisted immunotherapy and finally benefit the more effective disease treatments against the threatening cancer and infectious and chronic diseases.
目前临床上使用的化疗策略由于药物靶向作用低和副作用强而存在许多缺点,这显著限制了药物的效力,导致身体多个功能障碍,甚至导致疾病的出现。免疫疗法已被证明可以增强身体的先天和适应性防御,以更有效地控制和治疗疾病。作为一种微量元素,硒通过各种特定途径调节抗氧化防御、酶活性和免疫反应,对人体健康起着至关重要的作用。得益于新型纳米技术,硒纳米颗粒已被广泛开发,在抗癌、抗菌和抗炎治疗方面显示出巨大潜力。更有趣的是,越来越多的证据表明,功能性硒纳米颗粒可应用于潜在的免疫疗法,作为当前化疗的辅助治疗策略,可实现更有效的治疗效果。通过直接与先天免疫细胞(如巨噬细胞、树突状细胞和自然杀伤细胞)相互作用,硒纳米颗粒可以调节先天免疫以干预疾病的发展,据报道,这可以增强抗癌、抗感染和抗炎治疗效果。此外,硒纳米颗粒还可以激活和恢复不同的 T 细胞,以调节适应性免疫,增强其对癌细胞的细胞毒性,表明硒纳米颗粒在潜在免疫疗法策略开发方面的潜力。在这里,为了增强我们对基于 Se NPs 的潜在免疫疗法策略开发的理解,本综述将总结硒纳米颗粒的免疫调节作用以及基于硒纳米颗粒的免疫治疗策略的应用。此外,我们将讨论基于硒纳米颗粒的潜在免疫疗法作为一种新型辅助疗法来提高当前化疗效率的进展前景,并介绍当前开发硒纳米颗粒用于潜在免疫疗法策略开发的障碍。这项工作有望促进基于硒纳米颗粒的辅助免疫疗法的未来研究,并最终使针对威胁生命的癌症和传染性及慢性疾病的更有效的疾病治疗受益。
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