scholarly journals Facile synthesis of Prussian blue nanoparticles as pH-responsive drug carriers for combined photothermal-chemo treatment of cancer

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huajian Chen ◽  
Yan Ma ◽  
Xianwen Wang ◽  
Xiaoyi Wu ◽  
Zhengbao Zha

Multifunctional PEGylated PB-DOX NPs with a lipid-PEG shell were developed as a gram-scale manner and used as novel pH-responsive drug delivery vehicles for combined photothermal-chemo treatment of cancer cells with high efficacy.

Author(s):  
Huiyuan Bai ◽  
Quanhao Sun ◽  
Fei Kong ◽  
Hai-Jiao Dong ◽  
Ming Ma ◽  
...  

Multifunctional drug delivery systems combining two or more therapies have broad prospects for high efficacy tumor treatment. Herein, we designed a novel hollow mesoporous Prussian blue nanoparticles (HMPBs)-based platform for...


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (50) ◽  
pp. eabc3013
Author(s):  
Tianyuan Ci ◽  
Hongjun Li ◽  
Guojun Chen ◽  
Zejun Wang ◽  
Jinqiang Wang ◽  
...  

Live cells have been vastly engineered into drug delivery vehicles to leverage their targeting capability and cargo release behavior. Here, we describe a simple method to obtain therapeutics-containing “dead cells” by shocking live cancer cells in liquid nitrogen to eliminate pathogenicity while preserving their major structure and chemotaxis toward the lesion site. In an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) mouse model, we demonstrated that the liquid nitrogen–treated AML cells (LNT cells) can augment targeted delivery of doxorubicin (DOX) toward the bone marrow. Moreover, LNT cells serve as a cancer vaccine and promote antitumor immune responses that prolong the survival of tumor-bearing mice. Preimmunization with LNT cells along with an adjuvant also protected healthy mice from AML cell challenge.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (27) ◽  
pp. 4204-4220 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Fratoddi ◽  
I. Venditti ◽  
C. Cametti ◽  
M. V. Russo

Gold nanoparticles and their conjugates as drug delivery vehicles for selective targeting of cancer cells.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (46) ◽  
pp. 9033-9042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengni He ◽  
Jiajia Zhou ◽  
Jian Chen ◽  
Fangcai Zheng ◽  
Dongdong Wang ◽  
...  

Controlled drug release is a promising approach for cancer therapy due to its merits of reduced systemic toxicity and enhanced antitumor efficacy.


Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 1747
Author(s):  
Chiung-Hua Huang ◽  
Ting-Ju Chuang ◽  
Cherng-Jyh Ke ◽  
Chun-Hsu Yao

In this study, magnetic nanoparticles composed of a core (doxorubicin–gelatin) and a shell layer (Fe3O4–alginate) were developed to function as targeted anticancer drug delivery vehicles. The anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX) was selected as a model drug and embedded in the inner gelatin core to obtain high encapsulation efficiency. The advantage of the outer magnetic layer is that it targets the drug to the tumor tissue and provides controlled drug release. The physicochemical properties of doxorubicin–gelatin/Fe3O4–alginate nanoparticles (DG/FA NPs) were characterized using scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and X-ray diffraction. The mean diameter of DG/FA NPs, which was determined using a zeta potential analyzer, was 401.8 ± 3.6 nm. The encapsulation rate was 64.6 ± 11.8%. In vitro drug release and accumulation were also studied. It was found that the release of DOX accelerated in an acidic condition. With the manipulation of an external magnetic field, DG/FA NPs efficiently targeted Michigan Cancer Foundation-7 (MCF-7) breast cancer cells and showed in the nucleus after 6 h of incubation. After 12 h of incubation, the relative fluorescence intensity reached 98.4%, and the cell viability of MCF-7 cells decreased to 52.3 ± 4.64%. Dual-layer DG/FA NPs could efficiently encapsulate and deliver DOX into MCF-7 cells to cause the death of cancer cells. The results show that DG/FA NPs have the potential for use in targeted drug delivery and cancer therapy.


2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 817-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiano Giacomelli ◽  
Lucile Le Men ◽  
Redouane Borsali ◽  
Joséphine Lai-Kee-Him ◽  
Alain Brisson ◽  
...  

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