Hollow mesoporous ZSM-5 zeolite/chitosan ellipsoids loaded with doxorubicin as pH-responsive drug delivery systems against osteosarcoma

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (38) ◽  
pp. 7866-7875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Wen ◽  
Fan Yang ◽  
Qin-Fei Ke ◽  
Xue-Tao Xie ◽  
Ya-Ping Guo

Hollow mesoporous ZSM-5 zeolite/chitosan ellipsoids loaded with doxorubicin were firstly reported as novel pH-responsive drug delivery systems, and the controlled release of doxorubicin effectively treated osteosarcoma without systemic toxicity.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1985-1997
Author(s):  
Peng Wei ◽  
Fabian H. Sobotta ◽  
Carolin Kellner ◽  
Damiano Bandelli ◽  
Stephanie Hoeppener ◽  
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Smart nano-carriers such as micelles, vesicles or nanoparticles constructed from amphiphilic polymers promise a new generation of drug delivery systems featuring localized and controlled release.


Author(s):  
Daniela Díaz-Zepeda ◽  
René D. Peralta-Rodríguez ◽  
Bertha Puente-Urbina ◽  
Gladis Cortez-Mazatan ◽  
H. Iván Meléndez-Ortiz

Pharmaceutics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 460
Author(s):  
Minja Mladenović ◽  
Ibrahim Morgan ◽  
Nebojša Ilić ◽  
Mohamad Saoud ◽  
Marija V. Pergal ◽  
...  

Ruthenium complexes are attracting interest in cancer treatment due to their potent cytotoxic activity. However, as their high toxicity may also affect healthy tissues, efficient and selective drug delivery systems to tumour tissues are needed. Our study focuses on the construction of such drug delivery systems for the delivery of cytotoxic Ru(II) complexes upon exposure to a weakly acidic environment of tumours. As nanocarriers, mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN) are utilized, whose surface is functionalized with two types of ligands, (2-thienylmethyl)hydrazine hydrochloride (H1) and (5,6-dimethylthieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)hydrazine (H2), which were attached to MSN through a pH-responsive hydrazone linkage. Further coordination to ruthenium(II) center yielded two types of nanomaterials MSN-H1[Ru] and MSN-H2[Ru]. Spectrophotometric measurements of the drug release kinetics at different pH (5.0, 6.0 and 7.4) confirm the enhanced release of Ru(II) complexes at lower pH values, which is further supported by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) measurements. Furthermore, the cytotoxicity effect of the released metallotherapeutics is evaluated in vitro on metastatic B16F1 melanoma cells and enhanced cancer cell-killing efficacy is demonstrated upon exposure of the nanomaterials to weakly acidic conditions. The obtained results showcase the promising capabilities of the designed MSN nanocarriers for the pH-responsive delivery of metallotherapeutics and targeted treatment of cancer.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitesh Chopra ◽  
Inderbir Singh ◽  
Sandeep Kumar ◽  
Tanima Bhattacharya ◽  
Md. Habibur Rahman ◽  
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: The conventional drug delivery systems have a long list of issues of repeated dosing and toxicity arising due to it. The hydrogels are the answer to them and offer a result that minimizes such activities and optimizes therapeutic benefits. The hydrogels proffer tunable properties that can withstand degradation, metabolism, and controlled release moieties. Some of the areas of applications of hydrogels involve wound healing, ocular systems, vaginal gels, scaffolds for tissue, bone engineering, etc. They consist of about 90% of the water that makes them suitable bio-mimic moiety. Here, we present a birds-eye view of various perspectives of hydrogels, along with their applications.


2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 45678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael de Oliveira Pedro ◽  
Susana Pereira ◽  
Francisco M. Goycoolea ◽  
Carla C. Schmitt ◽  
Miguel G. Neumann

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 395-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Greenwald ◽  
Karen Yang ◽  
Hong Zhao ◽  
Charles D. Conover ◽  
Stanford Lee ◽  
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