Ninad Kumbhojkar, Supriya Prakash, Tatsuya Fukuta, Kwasi Adu-Berchie, Neha Kapate, Rocky An, Solomina Darko, Vineeth Chandran Suja, Kyung Soo Park, Alexander P Gottlieb, Michael Griffith Bibbey, Malini Mukherji, Lily Li-Wen Wang, David J Mooney, Samir Mitragotri
Tumour-associated neutrophils can exert antitumour effects but can also assume a pro-tumoural phenotype in the immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment. Here we show that neutrophils can be polarized towards the antitumour phenotype by discoidal polymer micrometric 'patches' that adhere to the neutrophils' surfaces without being internalized. Intravenously administered micropatch-loaded neutrophils accumulated in the spleen and in tumour-draining lymph nodes, and activated splenic natural killer cells and T cells, increasing the accumulation of dendritic cells and natural killer cells...
February 29, 2024: Nature Biomedical Engineering