scholarly journals Acidic microenvironment responsive polymeric MOF-based nanoparticles induce immunogenic cell death for combined cancer therapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Zhang ◽  
Yi Lu ◽  
Die Jia ◽  
Wei Qiu ◽  
Xianbin Ma ◽  
...  

Abstract Background The complex tumor microenvironment and non-targeting drugs limit the efficacy of clinical tumor therapy. For ensuring the accurate delivery and maximal effects of anticancer drugs, it is important to develop innovative drug delivery system based on nano-strategies. Result In this study, an intracellular acidity-responsive polymeric metal organic framework nanoparticle (denoted as DIMP) has been constructed, which can co-deliver the chemotherapy agent of doxorubicin (DOX) and phototherapy agent of indocyanine green (ICG) for breast carcinoma theranostics. Specifically, DIMP possesses a suitable and stable nanometer size and can respond to the acidic microenvironment in cells, thus precisely delivering drugs into target tumor sites and igniting the biological reactions towards cell apoptosis. Following in vivo and in vitro results showed that DIMP could be effectively accumulated in tumor sites and induced powerful immunogenic cell death (ICD) effect. Conclusion The designed DIMP displayed its effectiveness in combined photo-chemotherapy with auxiliary of ICD effect under a multimodal imaging monitor. Thus, the present MOF-based strategy may offer a potential paradigm for designing drug-delivery system for image-guided synergistic tumor therapy. Graphical Abstract

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1347-1354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Kranz ◽  
Erol Yilmaz ◽  
Gayle A. Brazeau ◽  
Roland Bodmeier

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subheet Kumar Jain ◽  
Neha Panchal ◽  
Amrinder Singh ◽  
Shubham Thakur ◽  
Navid Reza Shahtaghi ◽  
...  

Background: Diclofenac sodium (DS) injection is widely used in the management of acute or chronic pain and inflammatory diseases. It incorporates 20 % w/v Transcutol-P as a solubilizer to make the stable injectable formulation. However, the use of Transcutol-P in high concentration leads to adverse effects such as severe nephrotoxicity, etc. Some advancements resulted in the formulation of an aqueous based injectable but that too used benzyl alcohol reported to be toxic for human use. Objective: To develop an injectable self-micro emulsifying drug delivery system (SMEDDS) as a novel carrier of DS for prompt release with better safety and efficacy. Methods: A solubility study was performed with different surfactants and co-surfactants. The conventional stirring method was employed for the formulation of SMEDDS. Detailed in vitro characterization was done for different quality control parameters. In vivo studies were performed using Wistar rats for pharmacokinetic evaluation, toxicological analysis, and analgesic activity. Results: The optimized formulation exhibited good physical stability, ideal globule size (156±0.4 nm), quick release, better therapeutics, and safety, increase in LD50 (221.9 mg/kg) to that of the commercial counterpart (109.9 mg/kg). Further, pre-treatment with optimized formulation reduced the carrageenan-induced rat paw oedema by 88±1.2 % after 4 h, compared to 77±1.6 % inhibition with commercial DS formulation. Moreover, optimized formulation significantly (p<0.05) inhibited the pain sensation in the acetic-acid induced writhing test in mice compared to its commercial equivalent with a better pharmacokinetic profile. Conclusion: The above findings confirmed that liquid SMEDDS could be a successful carrier for the safe and effective delivery of DS


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 2920
Author(s):  
Ameeduzzafar Zafar ◽  
Syed Sarim Imam ◽  
Nabil K. Alruwaili ◽  
Omar Awad Alsaidan ◽  
Mohammed H. Elkomy ◽  
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Hypertension is a cardiovascular disease that needs long-term medication. Oral delivery is the most common route for the administration of drugs. The present research is to develop piperine self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (PE-SNEDDS) using glyceryl monolinoleate (GML), poloxamer 188, and transcutol HP as oil, surfactant, and co-surfactant, respectively. The formulation was optimized by three-factor, three-level Box-Behnken design. PE-SNEDDs were characterized for globule size, emulsification time, stability, in-vitro release, and ex-vivo intestinal permeation study. The optimized PE-SNEDDS (OF3) showed the globule size of 70.34 ± 3.27 nm, percentage transmittance of 99.02 ± 2.02%, and emulsification time of 53 ± 2 s Finally, the formulation OF3 was transformed into solid PE-SNEDDS (S-PE-SNEDDS) using avicel PH-101 as adsorbent. The reconstituted SOF3 showed a globule size of 73.56 ± 3.54 nm, PDI of 0.35 ± 0.03, and zeta potential of −28.12 ± 2.54 mV. SEM image exhibited the PE-SNEDDS completely adsorbed on avicel. Thermal analysis showed the drug was solubilized in oil, surfactant, and co-surfactant. S-PE-SNEDDS formulation showed a more significant (p < 0.05) release (97.87 ± 4.89% in 1 h) than pure PE (27.87 ± 2.65% in 1 h). It also exhibited better antimicrobial activity against S. aureus and P. aeruginosa and antioxidant activity as compared to PE dispersion. The in vivo activity in rats exhibited better (p < 0.05) antihypertensive activity as well as 4.92-fold higher relative bioavailability than pure PE dispersion. Finally, from the results it can be concluded that S-PE-SNEDDS might be a better approach for the oral delivery to improve the absorption and therapeutic activity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 1029-1036
Author(s):  
Hongzhu Wang ◽  
Mengxun Chen ◽  
Liping Song ◽  
Youju Huang

A key challenge for nanoparticles-based drug delivery system is to achieve manageable drug release in tumour cell. In this study, a versatile system combining photothermal therapy and controllable drug release for tumour cells using temperature-sensitive block copolymer coupled Au NRs@SiO2 is reported. While the Au NRs serve as hyperthermal agent and the mesoporous silica was used to improve the drug loading and decrease biotoxicity. The block copolymer acted as “gatekeeper” to regulate the release of model drug (Doxorubicin hydrochloride, DOX). Through in vivo and in vitro experiments, we achieved the truly controllable drug release and photothermal therapy with the collaborative effect of the three constituents of the nanocomposites. The reported nanocomposites pave the way to high-performance controllable drug release and photothermal therapy system.


Planta Medica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patcharawalai Jaisamut ◽  
Subhaphorn Wanna ◽  
Surasak Limsuwan ◽  
Sasitorn Chusri ◽  
Kamonthip Wiwattanawongsa ◽  
...  

AbstractBoth quercetin and resveratrol are promising plant-derived compounds with various well-described biological activities; however, they are categorized as having low aqueous solubility and labile natural compounds. The purpose of the present study was to propose a drug delivery system to enhance the oral bioavailability of combined quercetin and resveratrol. The suitable self-microemulsifying formulation containing quercetin together with resveratrol comprised 100 mg Capryol 90, 700 mg Cremophor EL, 200 mg Labrasol, 20 mg quercetin, and 20 mg resveratrol, which gave a particle size of 16.91 ± 0.08 nm and was stable under both intermediate and accelerated storage conditions for 12 months. The percentages of release for quercetin and resveratrol in the self-microemulsifying formulation were 75.88 ± 1.44 and 86.32 ± 2.32%, respectively, at 30 min. In rats, an in vivo pharmacokinetics study revealed that the area under the curve of the self-microemulsifying formulation containing quercetin and resveratrol increased approximately ninefold for quercetin and threefold for resveratrol compared with the unformulated compounds. Moreover, the self-microemulsifying formulation containing quercetin and resveratrol slightly enhanced the in vitro antioxidant and cytotoxic effects on AGS, Caco-2, and HT-29 cells. These findings demonstrate that the self-microemulsifying formulation containing quercetin and resveratrol could successfully enhance the oral bioavailability of the combination of quercetin and resveratrol without interfering with their biological activities. These results provide valuable information for more in-depth research into the utilization of combined quercetin and resveratrol.


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