Department of Ultrasound in Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200120, People's Republic of China.
Department of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Shanghai East Hospital, Tong Ji University, Shanghai, 200120, People's Republic of China.
Biomaterials. 2019 Oct;219:119374. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.119374. Epub 2019 Jul 19.
Traditional cancer-therapeutic modalities such as chemotherapy suffer from the low therapeutic efficiency and severe side effects. The emerging nanocatalytic therapy could in-situ catalyze the endogenous substances into highly toxic species and then efficiently kill the cancer cells, but the lack of high-performance nanocatalysts hinders their broad clinical translation. In this work, we have successfully developed, for the first time, nanosized zero-valence crystalized iron nanoparticles for in-situ triggering nanocatalytic Fenton reaction within tumor microenvironment to produce large amounts of hydroxyl radicals and subsequently kill the cancer cells, which could be further synergistically enhanced by either photonic hyperthermia or magnetic hyperthermia as assisted by these iron nanoparticles acting as photothermal-conversion or magnetothermal-conversion nanoagents, respectively. Especially, the excellent magnetic performance of these zero-valence crystallized iron nanoparticles has achieved both in vitro and in vivo contrast-enhance magnetic resonance imaging for potentially guiding the photonic/magnetic hyperthermia-synergistic nanocatalytic cancer therapy. This work not only provides the new type of iron-based nanoparticles for biomedical application, but also demonstrates the high efficiency of nanocatalytic cancer therapy as assisted by both photonic and magnetic hyperthermia.
传统的癌症治疗方法,如化疗,存在治疗效率低和副作用严重的问题。新兴的纳米催化疗法可以在原位将内源性物质催化成高毒性物质,然后有效地杀死癌细胞,但缺乏高性能的纳米催化剂阻碍了它们的广泛临床转化。在这项工作中,我们首次成功地开发了纳米级零价结晶铁纳米粒子,用于在肿瘤微环境中原位触发纳米催化芬顿反应,以产生大量的羟基自由基,随后杀死癌细胞,这些铁纳米粒子还可以分别作为光热转换或磁热转换纳米剂,通过光热疗法或磁热疗法来进一步协同增强。特别是,这些零价结晶铁纳米粒子的优异磁性实现了体外和体内对比增强磁共振成像,有可能指导光磁热协同纳米催化癌症治疗。这项工作不仅为生物医学应用提供了新型的铁基纳米粒子,还证明了光热和磁热辅助纳米催化癌症治疗的高效性。
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