Kanghye Bae

Ms. Kanghye Bae

Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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6 May 2022 in Pharmaceutics
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HLHyeji LEE
Hyeji LEE
KBKanghye Bae
Kanghye Bae
ABAhrum Baek
Ahrum Baek
EKEun-Bin Kwon
Eun-Bin Kwon
Yeoun-Hee KimYeoun-Hee Kim
Yeoun-Hee Kim
YCYongmin Chang
Yongmin Chang
The use of cancer-derived exosomes has been studied in several cancer types, but the cancer-targeting efficacy of glioma-derived exosomes has not been investigated in depth for malignant glioblastoma (GBM) cells. In this study, exosomes were derived from U87MG human glioblastoma cells, and selumetinib, a new anticancer drug, was loaded into the exosomes. We observed the tropism of GBM-derived exosomes in vitro and in vivo. We found that the tropism of GBM-derived exosomes is in contrast to the behavior of non-exosome-enveloped drugs and non-GBM-specific exosomes in vitro and in vivo in an animal GBM model. We found that the tropism exhibited by GBM-derived exosomes can be utilized to shuttle selumetinib, with no specific targeting moiety, to GBM tumor sites. Therefore, our findings indicated that GBM-derived exosomes loaded with selumetinib had a specific antitumor effect on U87MG cells and were non-toxic to normal brain cells. These exosomes offer improved therapeutic prospects for glioblastoma therapy.