Institute of Nanotechnology, National Research Council (CNR-NANOTEC), c/o Campus Ecotekne, via Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy.
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy.
J Colloid Interface Sci. 2022 Feb;607(Pt 1):34-44. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.08.153. Epub 2021 Aug 27.
Among the strategies to fight cancer, multi-therapeutic approaches are considered as a wise choice to put in place multiple weapons to suppress tumors. In this work, to combine chemotherapeutic effects to magnetic hyperthermia when using biocompatible scaffolds, we have established an electrospinning method to produce nanofibers of polycaprolactone loaded with magnetic nanoparticles as heat mediators to be selectively activated under alternating magnetic field and doxorubicin as a chemotherapeutic drug. Production of the fibers was investigated with iron oxide nanoparticles of peculiar cubic shape (at 15 and 23 nm in cube edges) as they provide benchmark heat performance under clinical magnetic hyperthermia conditions. With 23 nm nanocubes when included into the fibers, an arrangement in chains was obtained. This linear configuration of magnetic nanoparticles resemble that of the magnetosomes, produced by magnetotactic bacteria, and our magnetic fibers exhibited remarkable heating effects as the magnetosomes. Magnetic fiber scaffolds showed excellent biocompatibility on fibroblast cells when missing the chemotherapeutic agent and when not exposed to magnetic hyperthermia as shown by viability assays. On the contrary, the fibers containing both magnetic nanocubes and doxorubicin showed significant cytotoxic effects on cervical cancer cells following the exposure to magnetic hyperthermia. Notably, these tests were conducted at magnetic hyperthermia field conditions of clinical use. As here shown, on the doxorubicin sensitive cervical cancer cells, the combination of heat damage by magnetic hyperthermia with enhanced diffusion of doxorubicin at therapeutic temperature are responsible for a more effective oncotherapy.
在对抗癌症的策略中,多治疗方法被认为是明智的选择,可以使用多种武器来抑制肿瘤。在这项工作中,为了将化疗效果与磁热疗结合起来,我们采用了一种静电纺丝方法,制备了负载磁性纳米粒子的聚己内酯纳米纤维作为热介质,以便在交变磁场下选择性地激活,并负载阿霉素作为化疗药物。我们研究了具有独特立方形状的氧化铁纳米粒子(在立方边缘处为 15 和 23nm)作为热介质的磁性纳米粒子,因为它们在临床磁热疗条件下提供了基准的热性能。当将 23nm 的纳米立方放入纤维中时,得到了链状排列。这种磁性纳米粒子的线性排列类似于磁细菌产生的磁小体,并且我们的磁性纤维表现出与磁小体相当的显著加热效果。在不存在化疗药物且未暴露于磁热疗的情况下,磁性纤维支架对成纤维细胞表现出优异的生物相容性,如细胞活力测定所示。相反,当暴露于磁热疗时,含有磁性纳米立方和阿霉素的纤维对宫颈癌细胞显示出显著的细胞毒性作用。值得注意的是,这些测试是在临床使用的磁热疗场条件下进行的。如本文所示,对于阿霉素敏感的宫颈癌细胞,磁热疗引起的热损伤与治疗温度下阿霉素的增强扩散相结合,导致更有效的肿瘤治疗。
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