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Review
. 2024 Jun 24;14(3):827-872.
doi: 10.3390/jox14030047.

Precision Nanomedicine with Bio-Inspired Nanosystems: Recent Trends and Challenges in Mesenchymal Stem Cells Membrane-Coated Bioengineered Nanocarriers in Targeted Nanotherapeutics

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Precision Nanomedicine with Bio-Inspired Nanosystems: Recent Trends and Challenges in Mesenchymal Stem Cells Membrane-Coated Bioengineered Nanocarriers in Targeted Nanotherapeutics

Mirza Salman Baig et al. J Xenobiot. .

Abstract

In the recent past, the formulation and development of nanocarriers has been elaborated into the broader fields and opened various avenues in their preclinical and clinical applications. In particular, the cellular membrane-based nanoformulations have been formulated to surpass and surmount the limitations and restrictions associated with naïve or free forms of therapeutic compounds and circumvent various physicochemical and immunological barriers including but not limited to systemic barriers, microenvironmental roadblocks, and other cellular or subcellular hinderances-which are quite heterogeneous throughout the diseases and patient cohorts. These limitations in drug delivery have been overcome through mesenchymal cells membrane-based precision therapeutics, where these interventions have led to the significant enhancements in therapeutic efficacies. However, the formulation and development of nanocarriers still focuses on optimization of drug delivery paradigms with a one-size-fits-all resolutions. As mesenchymal stem cell membrane-based nanocarriers have been engineered in highly diversified fashions, these are being optimized for delivering the drug payloads in more and better personalized modes, entering the arena of precision as well as personalized nanomedicine. In this Review, we have included some of the advanced nanocarriers which have been designed and been utilized in both the non-personalized as well as precision applicability which can be employed for the improvements in precision nanotherapeutics. In the present report, authors have focused on various other aspects of the advancements in stem cells membrane-based nanoparticle conceptions which can surmount several roadblocks and barriers in drug delivery and nanomedicine. It has been suggested that well-informed designing of these nanocarriers will lead to appreciable improvements in the therapeutic efficacy in therapeutic payload delivery applications. These approaches will also enable the tailored and customized designs of MSC-based nanocarriers for personalized therapeutic applications, and finally amending the patient outcomes.

Keywords: cell membrane-based nanocarriers; drug delivery; mesenchymal stem cells; nanomedicine; personalized nanomedicine; precision medicine.

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Figure 5
Figure 5
Customizations and alterations of mesenchymal stem cell-based vesicular nanostructures to establish a nano-drug delivery system: These vesicular nanostructures are obtained from mesenchymal stem cells and can be employed for formulation of drug delivery vehicles and the creation of the membranous nanocarriers appropriate for delivering the therapeutic payload (reprinted from [153]).
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Figure 1
Schematic representation for the formulation steps implicated in the preparation of the mesenchymal stem cell-based nano-therapeutic drug delivery systems.
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Figure 2
Mesenchymal stem cells have an array of several applications because of their immunomodulatory characteristics and differentiation capabilities; hence, these mesenchymal stem cells have been employed in most stem cell-based research in both preclinical and clinical settings. Reproduced with permission from [108].
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Figure 3
Gadolinium-iron-oxide and polyvinyl alcohol-based nanoparticulate system associated with the mesenchymal stem cells derived from the umbilical cord which possess the capability for crossing the blood brain barrier and can become fused with cancerous cells under magnetic navigation for improved neuron capturing therapeutics (reprinted from [61]).
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Figure 4
Technologies and physical methods employed in introducing several types of nanoformulations and drug delivery carriers in different types of mesenchymal and other stem cells for anti-cancer therapeutics reprinted from [130].

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