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Anticancer Efficacy of Photodynamic Therapy with Lung Cancer-Targeted Nanoparticles
Published on: December 1, 2016
Core/Shell Structured Fe₃O₄@TiO₂-DNM Nanospheres as Multifunctional Anticancer Platform: Chemotherapy and
Min-Chao Liu1, Bing Liu2, Xiang-Yu Sun1
1School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Education Mega Centre, Guangzhou 510006, P. R. China.
Abstract:
The dose-dependent toxicity and low specificity against cancerous cells have restricted the clinical use of daunomycin (DNM). Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has been wildly used as an inorganic photodynamic therapy (PDT) agent and drug carrier. To facilitate the targeted drug delivery and combined therapy, in the present study, TiO2-coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles (Fe3O4@TiO2 NPs) were employed to load DNM and the drug-loaded Fe3O4@TiO2-DNM Nps exhibited smart pH-controlled releasing and satisfactory cytotoxicity as well as photocytotocity. The combination of prussian blue staining and fluorescence methods evidenced the effortless cell internalization of the fabricated Fe3O4@TiO2-DNM Nps for the cancer cells. The cell cycle status experiments indicated that the as-prepared nanospheres arrested the S and G2/M periods of the cancer cell proliferation in the dark, and further induced the apoptosis under the irradiation of ultraviolet light. The cell apoptotic results revealed that the apoptosis induced by the Fe3O4@TiO2-DNM Nps was in the early stage. The constructed Fe3O4@TiO2-DNM NPs have been endowed with multifunctions that allow them to selectively deliver combinatorial therapeutic payload and exhibit integrated therapeutic effectiveness to tumors.
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