Facile Fabrication of Oxidation-Responsive Polymeric Nanoparticles for Effective Anticancer Drug Delivery

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly overproduced in cancerous tissues, and thus oxidation-responsive nanoparticles (NPs) have emerged as a promising drug carrier for cancer-targeted drug delivery. In this study, we successfully synthesized poly(vanillyl alcohol- co-oxalate) (PVAX) polymer with an excellent ROS-responsive capacity. A well-established emulsion-solvent evaporation method was used to fabricate PVAX-based curcumin (CUR)-loaded NPs (PVAX-NPs) and their counterparts (poly(lactic- co-glycolic acid)-based CUR-loaded NPs, PLGA-NPs). It was found that these NPs had a hydrodynamic particle size of approximately 245 nm, narrow size distribution (polydispersity index less than 0.1), negative zeta potential (around -18 mV), smooth surface appearance, and high drug encapsulation efficiency. Moreover, we found that the CUR release rate of PVAX-NPs was greatly increased in the presence of a hydrogen peroxide-rich environment due to the cleavage of polyoxalate ester bonds in PVAX polymer, resulting in the evenly distribution of CUR within the whole cancer cells. More importantly, PVAX-NPs exhibited much stronger anticancer activities and pro-apoptotic capacities than PLGA-NPs both in vitro and in vivo. These results clearly demonstrate that these ROS-responsive PVAX-NPs can be exploited as a robust anticancer drug delivery platform in chemotherapy.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Molecular pharmaceutics - 16(2019), 1 vom: 07. Jan., Seite 49-59

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Yamei [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Qiubing [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Panpan [VerfasserIn]
Song, Heliang [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Xiaoqian [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Ya [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Gou, Shuangquan [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Zhigang [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jiucun [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Bo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antineoplastic Agents
Chemotherapy
Curcumin
Drug Carriers
Drug delivery
IT942ZTH98
Journal Article
Nanoparticle
Polymers
Reactive Oxygen Species
Reactive oxygen species
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Stimuli-responsive polymer

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Date Completed 18.11.2019

Date Revised 18.11.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00634

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM291161812