Dowdall Nate, Hoare Todd
Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L8, Canada.
Adv Healthc Mater. 2025 May;14(14):e2501006. doi: 10.1002/adhm.202501006. Epub 2025 Apr 29.
Innate immune cells such as macrophages and dendritic cells play major roles in the progression of many cancerous, fibrotic, and autoimmune diseases, often due to environmental cues that skew these cells toward a phenotype that progresses or exacerbates the disease state. As such, a growing focus in treating such diseases is placed on exploiting the high plasticity of these cells to modify or reverse their pro-disease phenotypes using immunomodulatory materials. β-1,3 glucans are one such type of material that has exhibited diverse immunomodulatory effects on immune cells, including the mitigation or reversal of the adverse effects of dysregulated immune cells. In this review, we outline various fabrication techniques to produce β-1,3 glucan-derived microparticles and nanoparticles and discuss the diverse particle properties that can be obtained by tuning glucan chemistry, fabrication method, and formulation components. Furthermore, the immunomodulatory applications of β-1,3 glucan particles are highlighted with a focus on immune cell targeting, modulation, and the delivery of small molecule and macromolecular therapeutics.
诸如巨噬细胞和树突状细胞等先天免疫细胞在许多癌症、纤维化和自身免疫性疾病的进展中发挥着主要作用,这通常是由于环境线索使这些细胞偏向于一种会促进或加剧疾病状态的表型。因此,治疗此类疾病的一个日益受到关注的重点是利用这些细胞的高可塑性,使用免疫调节材料来改变或逆转它们的促病表型。β-1,3-葡聚糖就是这样一种材料,它已对免疫细胞表现出多种免疫调节作用,包括减轻或逆转免疫细胞失调的不良影响。在这篇综述中,我们概述了生产β-1,3-葡聚糖衍生的微粒和纳米颗粒的各种制备技术,并讨论了通过调整葡聚糖化学、制备方法和配方成分可以获得的多种颗粒特性。此外,重点介绍了β-1,3-葡聚糖颗粒在免疫调节方面的应用,包括免疫细胞靶向、调节以及小分子和大分子治疗药物的递送。
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