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Yuan-Peng Wang1,2, Xiao-Ke Ren1,2, Qing-Lin Sun1,2
1Department of Toxicology and Sanitary Chemistry, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, PR China.
Abstract:
Multicomponent chemotherapy has increasingly become a strategy of great importance in clinical nonsmall cell lung cancer treatments. However, this type of combination chemotherapy has not led to synergistic drug activities. Herein, we present the codelivery of doxorubicin and oxaliplatin via supramolecular nanocapsules. Cucurbit[8]uril encapsulated the dual drugs by noncovalent interactions. The dual drug formulation significantly enhanced the overall cytotoxicity of each drug on cancer cells at a reduced dose, providing a higher degree of synergy compared to the free drug combination while mitigating the toxic effects of the dual drugs on normal organs. In our work, supramolecular nanocapsules can offer new means for building synergy into combination chemotherapy regimens.
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