Giulia Greco
Design and characterization of therapeutic nanocarriers inspired by exosomes secreted by colorectal cancer cells.
Rel. Valentina Alice Cauda, Giada Rosso. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Nanotechnologies For Icts (Nanotecnologie Per Le Ict), 2024
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Abstract
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the oncological malignancies with the highest incidence and mortality rates. The dominant cause for such a high death rate is at large associated to the development of metastatic diseases. Statistics indeed show that about 25% of CRC patients is already affected by metastasis in the moment of the primary tumor diagnosis and almost the 50% of the cases evolve towards the same direction. Several studies noticed that Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) secreted by CRC cells carry intercellular signals and promote the tumor cells colonization of distant organ-specific metastatic sites, like liver and lungs. In particular, tumor cells produce a much greater amount of vesicles than healthy cells, allowing significant cell-cell exchanges, since they carry with them incorporated proteins, DNA, mRNA and microRNAs.
Cancer-derived EVs have also been observed to abundantly get internalized back in the cancer tissue that originated them
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