Roadmap and strategy for overcoming infusion reactions to nanomedicines

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2018, Pages 1100-1108

  Szebeni, Janos ^a,b,c   Simberg, Dmitri ^d   González Fernández, África ^e   Barenholz, Yechezkel ^f   Dobrovolskaia, Marina A ^g  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b SeroScience Ltd   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; IN-VITRO TESTS; INFUSION REACTIONS; PHARMACEUTICAL FIELDS; PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS; SMALL MOLECULES; THERAPEUTIC DOSE;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

ALEMTUZUMAB; AMPHOCYL; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B CHOLESTEROL SULFATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; BEVACIZUMAB; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CETUXIMAB; CREMOPHOR; CYCLOSPORINE; CYTARABINE; CYTARABINE PLUS DAUNORUBICIN; DAUNORUBICIN; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ELITEC; ETOPOSIDE; FASTUREC; GEMTUZUMAB OZOGAMICIN; IRINOTECAN; IRINOTECAN SUCROSOFATE; LIPOSOME; NANOPARTICLE; PACLITAXEL; PANITUMUMAB; PODOPHYLLOTOXIN; POLOXAMER; POLYSORBATE 80; RASBURICASE; RITUXIMAB; TENIPOSIDE; TRASTUZUMAB; VERTEPORFIN;

ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; APNEA; ASTHENIA; B CELL LEUKEMIA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BACKACHE; BRONCHOSPASM; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHILL; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FAINTNESS; FEVER; FLUSHING; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEADACHE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERURICEMIA; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; IMMEDIATE TYPE HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX SPASM; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; METASTATIC BREAST CANCER; METASTATIC COLON CANCER; METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER; MYCOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYELOMA; NANOMEDICINE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NAUSEA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PAIN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHINITIS; RHINORRHEA; RIGOR; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; STRIDOR; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN; THROAT TIGHTNESS; TONGUE SWELLING; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URTICARIA; VOMITING; WHEEZING; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROCEDURES;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ANIMALS; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; NANOMEDICINE; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 85055572663     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-018-0273-1     Document Type: Review

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