Institute of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering, Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P. R. China.
School of Perfume and Aroma Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, P. R. China.
Adv Healthc Mater. 2021 Apr;10(8):e2001803. doi: 10.1002/adhm.202001803. Epub 2021 Jan 12.
Most anticancer drugs, particularly paclitaxel (PTX), are suffering the challenges of cancer chemotherapy due to their poor water-solubility, high toxicity under effective therapeutic dosages, and multi-drug resistance. Currently, nanoscale drug delivery systems (DDSs) represent an efficient platform to overcome the above challenges. However, those DDSs generally need a careful design of conjugation, complexation, or co-self-assembly. Herein, a facile out-of-the-box nanocapsule is developed not only to be easily packed with on-demand hydrophobic anticancer drugs (up to 76% of loading efficiency for PTX), but also to be loaded with other concomitant drugs for synergy therapy (Itraconazole (ITA) here as P-glycoprotein inhibitor for drug resistance and antiangiogenic agent for combination therapy with PTX). Three kinds of biocompatible poly(ethylene glycol) dimethacrylates (PEGDM) derivatives usually as cross-linking agents are selected and successfully constructed adequate nanocapsules with single monomer as shell materials. More importantly, as-prepared nanocapsules have abilities of esterase triggering and lung targeting. Both in vitro and in vivo studies showed that the drug-loaded nanocapsules can effectively inhibit tumor growth and vascular proliferation in PTX-resistant tumor models without apparent systemic toxicity. The above results demonstrate that the nanocapsule system provides an effective and universal strategy for lung targeting, esterase triggering, and synergy therapy.
大多数抗癌药物,特别是紫杉醇(PTX),由于其水溶性差、有效治疗剂量下毒性高以及多药耐药性,在癌症化疗中面临挑战。目前,纳米级药物传递系统(DDS)代表了克服上述挑战的有效平台。然而,这些 DDS 通常需要仔细设计缀合、络合或共自组装。在此,开发了一种简便的纳米胶囊,不仅可以轻松包装按需疏水性抗癌药物(PTX 的载药量高达 76%),还可以装载其他伴随药物进行协同治疗(这里使用伊曲康唑(ITA)作为 P-糖蛋白抑制剂用于与 PTX 的联合治疗和抗血管生成剂)。选择了三种通常用作交联剂的生物相容性聚乙二醇二甲基丙烯酸酯(PEGDM)衍生物,并成功地用单一单体作为壳材料构建了足够的纳米胶囊。更重要的是,所制备的纳米胶囊具有酯酶触发和肺靶向的能力。体外和体内研究均表明,载药纳米胶囊可有效抑制紫杉醇耐药肿瘤模型中的肿瘤生长和血管增殖,而无明显的全身毒性。上述结果表明,纳米胶囊系统为肺靶向、酯酶触发和协同治疗提供了一种有效且通用的策略。
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