Two drug-loaded nanoparticle formulations that preferentially accumulate within tumour-associated macrophages induce macrophage repolarization to a tumoricidal state that leads to potent antitumour activity in multiple murine models of cancer.
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Gustafson, H.H., Pun, S.H. Instructing macrophages to fight cancer. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 559–561 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0276-0
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