Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Smart Bio-Interfaces, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera, Italy.
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, The Biorobotics Institute, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera, Italy.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2020 Jul 1;12(26):29037-29055. doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c05556. Epub 2020 Jun 8.
Glioblastoma multiforme is the most aggressive brain tumor, due to its high invasiveness and genetic heterogeneity. Moreover, the blood-brain barrier prevents many drugs from reaching a therapeutic concentration at the tumor site, and most of the chemotherapeutics lack in specificity toward cancer cells, accumulating in both healthy and diseased tissues, with severe side effects. Here, we present in vitro investigations on lipid-based nanovectors encapsulating a drug, nutlin-3a, and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles, to combine the proapoptotic action of the drug and the hyperthermia mediated by superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles stimulated with an alternating magnetic field. The nanovectors are functionalized with the peptide angiopep-2 to induce receptor-mediated transcytosis through the blood-brain barrier and to target a receptor overexpressed by glioma cells. The glioblastoma multiforme targeting efficiency and the blood-brain barrier crossing abilities were tested through in vitro fluidic models, where different human cell lines were placed to mimic the tumor microenvironment. These nanovectors successfully cross the blood-brain barrier model, maintaining their targeting abilities for glioblastoma multiforme with minimal interaction with healthy cells. Moreover, we showed that nanovector-assisted hyperthermia induces a lysosomal membrane permeabilization that not only initiates a caspase-dependent apoptotic pathway, but also enhances the anticancer efficacy of the drug.
多形性胶质母细胞瘤是最具侵袭性的脑肿瘤,因其高度侵袭性和遗传异质性。此外,血脑屏障阻止了许多药物达到肿瘤部位的治疗浓度,而且大多数化疗药物对癌细胞缺乏特异性,在健康和患病组织中积累,具有严重的副作用。在这里,我们对包封药物 nutlin-3a 和超顺磁性氧化铁纳米粒子的基于脂质的纳米载体进行了体外研究,以结合药物的促凋亡作用和超顺磁性氧化铁纳米粒子在交变磁场刺激下的热疗。纳米载体用肽血管生成素-2 进行功能化,以诱导通过血脑屏障的受体介导的转胞吞作用,并靶向由神经胶质瘤细胞过表达的受体。通过体外流体模型测试了多形性胶质母细胞瘤的靶向效率和血脑屏障穿透能力,其中放置了不同的人细胞系来模拟肿瘤微环境。这些纳米载体成功地穿过血脑屏障模型,保持对多形性胶质母细胞瘤的靶向能力,与健康细胞的相互作用最小。此外,我们表明,纳米载体辅助热疗诱导溶酶体膜通透性,不仅引发 caspase 依赖性凋亡途径,而且还增强了药物的抗癌功效。
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