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Erythrocyte-mediated systemic immunotherapy

The restoration of a local chemokine gradient by nanoparticles non-covalently anchored on the surface of systemically administered red blood cells delays cancer progression in mouse models of lung metastasis.

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Fig. 1: Erythrocyte-anchored systemic cancer immunotherapy for lung metastases.

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Zhang, P., Li, Y. Erythrocyte-mediated systemic immunotherapy. Nat Biomed Eng 5, 385–386 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-021-00731-y

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