Syringeable hyaluronic acid-based hydrogel co-loaded with cisplatin and MSA-2 for enhanced ovarian cancer
Zhengfei Sun1, Dehua Wei1, Guofeng Ji2
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Puyang People's Hospital, No. 252, Shengli Middle Road, HuaLong District, Puyang 457000, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Low immunogenicity and a prevailing immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) remain major bottlenecks for ovarian cancer (OC) immunotherapy. While platinum-based chemotherapy can trigger antitumor immunity via immunogenic cell death (ICD), its clinical efficacy is often hampered by the intrinsic immunosuppressive milieu and insufficient drug accumulation at the tumor site following systemic administration. To address these challenges, we fabricated a syringeable hyaluronic acid-based hydrogel co-loaded with Cisplatin (CDDP) and STING agonist MSA-2 (CDDP/MSA-2@Gel) for enhanced localized chemoimmunotherapy. The sustained local release of CDDP and MSA-2 synergistically boost stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway activation, thereby eliciting potent type-I-IFN-driven systemic antitumor immune responses and alleviating the immunosuppressive TME.In vivostudies demonstrated that CDDP/MSA-2@Gel treatment significantly inhibits tumor growth in murine OC models without systemic toxicity. Collectively, our designed CDDP/MSA-2@Gel represents a safe and potent strategy for enhanced synergistic chemoimmunotherapy, offering significant potential for clinical translation in the treatment of OC.


