scholarly journals Application of mesoporous silica nanoparticles for drug delivery to cancer cells

Cancer is one of the main causes of death worldwide. Chemotherapy is the most common method for cancer therapy which represent non-specific side effects on normal cells and tissues and drug resistance in cancer cells. There are two main mechanisms for Multi Drug Resistance (MDR) in cancer cells including: drug efflux pump and activation of anti-apoptotic pathways. Cancer chemotherapy disadvantages can be overcome by using nanoparticulate drug delivery systems like Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles (MSNs) that have been used as drug delivery system since 2001. The present review included synthesis, targeted (active or passive) drug delivery to cancer cells, co-delivery of anticancer drugs and siRNA by MSNs and its toxicity. This review revealed that MSNs are good candidate for drug delivery to cancer cells due to its unique properties including: controllable pore and particle sizes, thermal and chemical stability, modifications of outer and inner surfaces of nanoparticles for drug and siRNA loading, attachment of ligand for targeted drug delivery, high drug loading capacity and controlled drug release, biocompatibility and biodegradation in aqueous medium.

RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (61) ◽  
pp. 35566-35578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhankar Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Hanitrarimalala Veroniaina ◽  
Tadious Chimombe ◽  
Lidong Han ◽  
Wu Zhenghong ◽  
...  

Protean mesoporous silica nanoparticles are propitious candidates over decades for nanoscale drug delivery systems due to their unique characteristics, including changeable pore size, mesoporosity, high drug loading capacity and biodegradability.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Pu ◽  
Jia Li ◽  
Peng Qiao ◽  
Mengmeng Li ◽  
Haiyan Wang ◽  
...  

Background: With the development of nanotechnology, nanocarrier has widely been applied in such fields as drug delivery, diagnostic and medical imaging and engineering in recent years. Among all of the available nanocarriers, mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have become a hot issue because of their unique properties, such as large surface area and voidage, tunable drug loading capacity and release kinetics, good biosafety and easily modified surface. Objective: We described the most recent progress in silica-assisted drug delivery and biomedical applications according to different types of Cargo in order to allow researchers to quickly learn about the advance in this field. Methods: Information has been collected from the recently published literature available mainly through Title or Abstract search in SpringerLink and PubMed database. Special emphasis is on the literature available during 2008-2017. Results: In this review, the major research advances of MSNs on the drug delivery and biomedical applications were summarized. The significant advantages of MSNs have also been listed. It was found that the several significant challenges need to be addressed and investigated to further advance the applications of these structurally defined nanomaterials. Conclusion: Through approaching this review, the researchers can be aware of many new synthetic methods, smart designs proposed in the recent year and remaining questions of MSNs at present.


2011 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 600a
Author(s):  
Anna M. Sauer ◽  
Axel Schlossbauer ◽  
Valentina Cauda ◽  
Hanna Engelke ◽  
Christian Argyo ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 1754-1760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Radhakrishnan ◽  
Jasaswini Tripathy ◽  
Akshay Datey ◽  
Dipshikha Chakravortty ◽  
Ashok M. Raichur

A polysaccharide based gatekeeper is attached to seal the nanopores of drug mesoporous silica nanoparticles, which facilitates uptake by cancer cells and undergoes intracellular degradation to initiate drug release.


2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (95) ◽  
pp. 13775-13778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Li-Li Tan ◽  
Xi Li ◽  
Nan Song ◽  
Zheng Li ◽  
...  

A new drug delivery system, based on mesoporous silica nanoparticles gated by carboxylatopillar[5]arene-modified gold nanoparticles, has been fabricated for controlled drug release.


Molecules ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 3082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Liu ◽  
Fan Wang ◽  
Yongchao Zhu ◽  
Xue Li ◽  
Xiaojing Liu ◽  
...  

Targeted drug delivery to colon cancer cells can significantly improve the efficiency of treatment. We firstly synthesized carboxyl-modified mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN–COOH) via two-step synthesis, and then developed calcium leucovorin (LV)-loaded carboxyl-modified mesoporous silica nanoparticles based on galactosylated chitosan (GC), which are galectin receptor-mediated materials for colon-specific drug delivery systems. Both unmodified and functionalized nanoparticles were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), nitrogen sorption, and dynamic light scattering (DLS). Drug release properties and drug loading capacity were determined by ultraviolet spectrophotometry (UV). LV@MSN–COOH/GC had a high LV loading and a drug loading of 18.07%. In vitro, its release, mainly by diffusion, was sustained release. Cell experiments showed that in SW620 cells with the galectin receptor, the LV@MSN–COOH/GC metabolized into methyl tetrahydrofolic acid (MTHF) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)@MSN–NH2/GC metabolized into FdUMP in vivo. MTHF and 5-fluoro-2′-deoxyuridine 5′-monophosphate (FdUMP) had combined inhibition and significantly downregulated the expression of thymidylate synthase (TS). Fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry experiments show that MSN–COOH/GC has tumor cell targeting, which specifically recognizes and binds to the galectin receptor in tumor cells. The results show that the nano-dosing system based on GC can increase the concentrations of LV and 5-FU tumor cells and enhance their combined effect against colon cancer.


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