Nanoparticles of Metal-Organic Frameworks: On the Road to In Vivo Efficacy in Biomedicine

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (37) ◽  
pp. 1707365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Simon-Yarza ◽  
Angelika Mielcarek ◽  
Patrick Couvreur ◽  
Christian Serre
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (37) ◽  
pp. 1870281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Simon-Yarza ◽  
Angelika Mielcarek ◽  
Patrick Couvreur ◽  
Christian Serre

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarek Baati ◽  
Leila Njim ◽  
Fadoua Neffati ◽  
Abdelhamid Kerkeni ◽  
Muriel Bouttemi ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Ines Sifaoui ◽  
Idaira Pacheco-Fernández ◽  
José E. Piñero ◽  
Verónica Pino ◽  
Jacob Lorenzo-Morales

In this study, the application of amphipods in vivo assays was evaluated. The main aim of this work was to check the potential use of this model in biocompatibility assessments of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Hence, six different MOFs were synthesized and the in vitro and ex vivo cytotoxicity was first assessed using a colorimetric assay and a macrophage cell line. Obtained results were compared to validate the in vivo toxicity tests carried out using amphipods and increasing concentrations of the different MOFs. Amphipods do not require the need of ethics approval and also are less expensive to keep than conventional in vivo models, showing its potential as a fast and reliable platform in toxicity studies. The obtained results showed that the amphipods based-assay was simple, easy to replicate and yielded toxicity data corresponding to the type of MOFs tested. In addition, it was observed that only CIM-80(Al) and CIM-84(Zr) did not show any toxicity to the animals at the different tested concentrations. Therefore, the developed in vivo model could be applied as a high-throughput toxicity screening method to evaluate the toxicity of numerous materials, chemicals and therapeutic agents among others.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (19) ◽  
pp. 1900761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruili Zhang ◽  
Chaoqiang Qiao ◽  
Qian Jia ◽  
Yongdong Wang ◽  
Huimin Huang ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Luzuriaga ◽  
Candace Benjamin ◽  
Michael W. Gaertner ◽  
Hamilton lee ◽  
Fabian C. Herbert ◽  
...  

<p>The emergence of drug delivery using water stable metal-organic frameworks has elicited a lot of interest in their biocompatibility. However, few studies have been conducted on their stability in common buffers, cell media, and blood proteins. For these studies, single crystal ZIF-8 approximately 1 um in diameter were synthesized, incubated with common laboratory buffers, cell media, and serum, and then characterized by PXRD, IR, DLS, and SEM. Time-resolved SEM and PXRD demonstrate that buffers containing phosphate and bicarbonate alter the appearance and composition of ZIF-8. Further, blood proteins in serum dissolve ZIF-8, causing trapped biomolecules to escape. The study presented here suggests that ZIF-8 can undergo dramatic surface chemistry changes that may affect the interpretation of cellular uptake and cargo release data. On the other hand, it provides a rational explanation as to how ZIF-8 neatly dissolves <i>in vivo</i>. </p>


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumaira Naeem ◽  
Geetha Viswanathan ◽  
Misni Bin Misran

AbstractThe advancement of research in colloidal systems has led to the increased application of this technology in more effective and targeted drug delivery. Nanotechnology enables control over functionality parameters and allows innovations in biodegradable, biocompatible, and stimuli-responsive delivery systems. The first closed bilayer phospholipid system, the liposome system, has been making steady progress over five decades of extensive research and has been efficient in achieving many desirable parameters such as remote drug loading, size-controlling measures, longer circulation half-lives, and triggered release. Liposome-mediated drug delivery has been successful in overcoming obstacles to cellular and tissue uptake of drugs with improved biodistributionin vitroandin vivo. These colloidal nanovehicles have moved on from a mere concept to clinical applications in various drug delivery systems for antifungal, antibiotic, and anticancer drugs.


Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 6205-6211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuechuan Gao ◽  
Ruixue Cui ◽  
Guanfeng Ji ◽  
Zhiliang Liu

This work presents a novel size and surface controllable metal–organic framework, UIO-66-NH2-FA-5-FAM/5-FU, which possesses the superior characteristics of targeted identification of cancer cells, bioimaging and obvious anti-cancer effects in vivo.


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