Green-emitting carbon dot loaded silica nanoparticles coated with DNA-cross-linked hydrogels for sensitive carcinoembryonic antigen detection and effective targeted cancer therapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (100) ◽  
pp. 15101-15104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoting Ji ◽  
Haoyuan Lv ◽  
Xinxin Sun ◽  
Caifeng Ding

Bifunctional composite nanospheres for carcinoembryonic antigen sensing and targeted drug delivery, based on carbon dot loaded silica nanoparticles coated with DNA-cross-linked hydrogels.

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (48) ◽  
pp. 8452-8465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Wang ◽  
Ting Ting Wang ◽  
Peng Fei Gao ◽  
Cheng Zhi Huang

Now and in the future, with the development of artificial biomolecules as well as nanomaterials, targeted drug delivery based on elegant biomolecule–nanomaterial conjugation approaches is being developed to achieve great versatility, additional functions, and further advances.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (28) ◽  
pp. 4618-4629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Huang ◽  
Jia Liu ◽  
Fan Gao ◽  
Qian Cheng ◽  
Bo Lu ◽  
...  

A novel enzyme and redox dual-responsive targeted drug delivery system based on hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles was developed for cancer therapy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuldeep Rajpoot

Though modern available cancer therapies are effective, they possess major adverse effects, causing non-compliance to patients. Furthermore, the majority of the polymeric-based medication platforms are certainly not universally acceptable, due to their several restrictions. With this juxtaposition, lipid-based medication delivery systems have appeared as promising drug nanocarriers to replace the majority of the polymer-based products because they are in a position to reverse polymer as well as, drug-associated restrictions. Furthermore, the amalgamation of the basic principle of nanotechnology in designing lipid nanocarriers, which are the latest form of lipid carriers, has tremendous chemotherapeutic possibilities as tumor-targeted drug-delivery pertaining to tumor therapy. Apart from this, it is reported that nearly 40% of the modern medication entities are lipophilic. Moreover, research continues to be efficient in attaining a significant understanding of the absorption and bioavailability of the developed lipids systems.


Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 3321
Author(s):  
Etienne J. Slapak ◽  
Lily Kong ◽  
Mouad el Mandili ◽  
Rienk Nieuwland ◽  
Alexander Kros ◽  
...  

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has the worst survival rate of all cancers. This poor prognosis results from the lack of efficient systemic treatment regimens, demanding high-dose chemotherapy that causes severe side effects. To overcome dose-dependent toxicities, we explored the efficacy of targeted drug delivery using a protease-dependent drug-release system. To this end, we developed a PDAC-specific drug delivery system based on mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN) functionalized with an avidin–biotin gatekeeper system containing a protease linker that is specifically cleaved by tumor cells. Bioinformatic analysis identified ADAM9 as a PDAC-enriched protease, and PDAC cell-derived conditioned medium efficiently cleaved protease linkers containing ADAM9 substrates. Cleavage was PDAC specific as conditioned medium from leukocytes was unable to cleave the ADAM9 substrate. Protease linker-functionalized MSNs were efficiently capped with avidin, and cap removal was confirmed to occur in the presence of PDAC cell-derived ADAM9. Subsequent treatment of PDAC cells in vitro with paclitaxel-loaded MSNs indeed showed high cytotoxicity, whereas no cell death was observed in white blood cell-derived cell lines, confirming efficacy of the nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery system. Taken together, this research introduces a novel ADAM9-responsive, protease-dependent, drug delivery system for PDAC as a promising tool to reduce the cytotoxicity of systemic chemotherapy.


Author(s):  
Mahadevappa Y. Kariduraganavar ◽  
Geetha B. Heggannavar ◽  
Sandra Amado ◽  
Geoffrey R. Mitchell

Author(s):  
D.L. Stirland ◽  
J.W. Nichols ◽  
T.A. Denison ◽  
Y.H. Bae

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