Ibrahim Alaa, Khalil Islam A, Mahmoud Mohamed Y, Bakr Alaa F, Ghoniem Monira G, Al-Farraj Eida S, El-Sherbiny Ibrahim M
Nanomedicine Research Labs, Center for Materials Sciences, Zewail City of Science and Technology, 6th of October City, 12578 Giza, Egypt.
Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Manufacturing, Misr University of Science and Technology (MUST), 6th of October, Giza 12582, Egypt.
Int J Biol Macromol. 2023 Jan 15;225:503-517. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.11.107. Epub 2022 Nov 17.
Breast carcinoma is considered one of the most invasive and life-threatening malignancies in females. Mastectomy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy and chemotherapy are the most common treatment choices for breast cancer. Doxorubicin (DOX) is one of the most regularly utilized medications in breast cancer protocols. However, DOX has showed numerous side effects including lethal cardiotoxicity. This study aims to fortify DOX cytotoxicity and lowering its side effects via its combining with the antidiabetic metformin (MET) as an adjuvant therapy, along with its effective delivery using natural platelet-rich plasma (PRP), and newly-developed PRP-mimicking nanocapsules (NCs). The PRP-mimicking NCs were fabricated via layer-by-layer (LBL) deposition of oppositely charged biodegradable and biocompatible chitosan (CS) and alginate (ALG) on a core of synthesized polystyrene nanoparticles (PS NPs) followed by removal of the PS core. Both natural PRP and PRP-mimicking NCs were loaded with DOX and MET adjuvant therapy, followed by their physicochemical characterizations including DLS, FTIR, DSC, and morphological evaluation using TEM. In-vitro drug release studies, cytotoxicity, apoptosis/necrosis, and cell cycle analysis were conducted using MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Also, an in-vivo assessment was carried out using EAC-bearing balb/c mice animal model to evaluate the effect of DOX/MET-loaded natural PRP and PRP-mimicked NCs on tumor weight, volume and growth biomarkers in addition to analyzing the immunohistopathology of the treated tissues. Results confirmed the development of CS/ALG-based PRP-mimicking NCs with a higher loading capacity of both drugs (DOX and MET) and smaller size (259.7 ± 19.3 nm) than natural PRP (489 ± 20.827 nm). Both in-vitro and in-vivo studies were in agreement and confirmed that MET synergized the anticancer activity of DOX against breast cancer. Besides, the developed LBL NCs successfully mimicked the PRP in improving the loaded drugs biological efficiency more than free drugs.
乳腺癌被认为是女性中最具侵袭性和危及生命的恶性肿瘤之一。乳房切除术、放射疗法、激素疗法和化学疗法是乳腺癌最常见的治疗选择。阿霉素(DOX)是乳腺癌治疗方案中最常用的药物之一。然而,DOX已显示出许多副作用,包括致命的心脏毒性。本研究旨在通过将DOX与抗糖尿病药物二甲双胍(MET)联合作为辅助治疗来增强DOX的细胞毒性并降低其副作用,同时使用天然富血小板血浆(PRP)和新开发的类PRP纳米胶囊(NCs)实现其有效递送。通过在合成的聚苯乙烯纳米颗粒(PS NPs)核上逐层(LBL)沉积带相反电荷的可生物降解且生物相容的壳聚糖(CS)和海藻酸盐(ALG),然后去除PS核,制备了类PRP NCs。天然PRP和类PRP NCs均负载DOX和MET辅助治疗,随后对其进行物理化学表征,包括动态光散射(DLS)、傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)、差示扫描量热法(DSC),并使用透射电子显微镜(TEM)进行形态学评估。使用MCF-7乳腺癌细胞进行体外药物释放研究、细胞毒性、凋亡/坏死和细胞周期分析。此外,使用携带艾氏腹水癌(EAC)的balb/c小鼠动物模型进行体内评估,以评估负载DOX/MET的天然PRP和类PRP NCs对肿瘤重量、体积和生长生物标志物的影响,并分析治疗组织的免疫组织病理学。结果证实了基于CS/ALG的类PRP NCs的开发,其对两种药物(DOX和MET)的负载能力更高,尺寸(259.7 ± 19.3 nm)比天然PRP(489 ± 20.827 nm)更小。体外和体内研究结果一致,并证实MET协同DOX对乳腺癌的抗癌活性。此外,所开发的LBL NCs在提高负载药物的生物学效率方面比游离药物更成功地模拟了PRP。
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