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Qi Wang1, Peifeng Liu, Ying Sun
1State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai , China and.
Abstract:
A facile room-temperature method was used to prepare phosphatidylserine (PS)-poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)/calcium phosphate (CaP) nanospheres (PS-poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether/CaP nanospheres). Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) results confirmed that the PS-PEG/CaP porous nanospheres were spherical with a diameter of 8-12 nm. X-ray and thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) results also confirmed that the PS-PEG micelle was packed in the CaP shell. PS-PEG/CaP nanospheres exhibited little effect on the hemolysis, coagulation characteristics of blood and inflammatory response, demonstrating a negligible cytotoxicity response in LO2 liver cells. Experiments performed in zebrafish demonstrated that the PS-PEG/CaP nanospheres had a long circulatory residence time and did not induce apoptosis in zebrafish. Taken together, these results suggest that the PS-PEG/CaP nanospheres have great potential to be used as a drug carrier.
