title: Cells as delivery vehicles for cancer therapeutics.
abstract: Cell-based therapeutics have advanced significantly over the past decade and are poised to become a major pillar of modern medicine. Three cell types in particular have been studied in detail for their ability to home to tumors and to deliver a variety of different payloads. Neural stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells and monocytes have each been shown to have great potential as future delivery systems for cancer therapy. A variety of other cell types have also been studied. These results demonstrate that the field of cell-based therapeutics will only continue to grow.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy & Physiology, Kansas State University, KS, USA.
authors.forename: Matthew T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Basel
authors.forename: Tej B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Shrestha
authors.forename: Stefan H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Bossmann
authors.forename: Deryl L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Troyer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D006801:Humans; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D009000:Monocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D058953:Neural Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism*