Yan Hong-Mei, Song Jie, Zhang Zhen-Hai, Jia Xiao-Bin
a Affiliated Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine , Nanjing , China and.
b Key Laboratory of New Drug Delivery System of Chinese Materia Medica, Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Medicine , Nanjing , China.
Drug Deliv. 2016 Oct;23(8):2911-2918. doi: 10.3109/10717544.2015.1120365. Epub 2015 Dec 8.
Baohuoside I, extracted from the Herba epimedii, is an effective but a poorly soluble antitumor drug. To improve its solubility, formulation of baohuoside I-loaded mixed micelles with lecithin and Solutol HS 15 (BLSM) has been performed in this study. We performed a systematic comparative evaluation of the antiproliferative effect, cellular uptake, antitumor efficacy, and in vivo tumor targeting of these micelles using non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) A549 cells. Results showed that the obtained micelles have a mean particle size of around 62.54 nm, and the size of micelles was narrowly distributed. With the improved cellular uptake, BLSM displayed a more potent antiproliferative action on A549 cell lines than baohuoside I; half-maximal inhibitory concentration (IC) was 6.31 versus 18.28 µg/mL, respectively. The antitumor efficacy test in nude mice showed that BLSM exhibited significantly higher antitumor activity against NSCLC with lesser toxic effects on normal tissues. The imaging study for in vivo targeting demonstrated that the mixed micelles formulation achieved effective and targeted drug delivery. Therefore, BLSM might be a potential antitumor formulation.
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