Eco-friendly development of an ultrasmall IONP-loaded nanoplatform for bimodal imaging-guided cancer theranostics
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Magnetic-, Acoustic-, and Optical-Triple-Responsive Microbubbles for Magnetic Hyperthermia and Pothotothermal Combination Cancer Therapy
Published on: May 22, 2020
Yulin Li1, Ling Zheng, Lan Xiao
1The State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering and Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Engineering Research Centre for Biomedical Materials of Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. yulinli@ecust.edu.cn csliu@ecust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Success in disease therapy depends on precision medicines, where development of formulations with diagnostic and therapeutic functions is quite important. In this study, multifunctional theranostics based on a magnetic graphene oxide (GO) nanohybrid (GIPD) has been developed for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-guided chemo-photothermal therapy of cancer. The GIPD is endowed with T1/T2 MR imaging capacity via precipitation of small-sized IONP nanoparticles (8.25 ± 2.25 nm) on GO nanosheets through a mild friendly way (60 °C for 1 h, no organic solvent). The obtained nanocomposite is then non-covalently decorated with phosphine oxide polyethylene glycol to improve biosafety. The final nanohybrid effectively loads doxorubicin as the model chemotherapeutic drug and is found to have in vivo T1/T2 MR bimodal imaging functions. Both the in vitro and in vivo results demonstrate that the GO-based nanoplatform displays a good remote photothermal effect, which can damage the dense shell of solid tumor tissue, thereby facilitating the delivery of anticancer drugs into tumor cells. Therefore, this theranostic nanoplatform enables a potent combined chemo-photothermal anticancer efficacy, holding great potential for exploitation of precision cancer therapy.
