ROS-generating, pH-responsive and highly tunable reduced graphene oxide-embedded microbeads showing intrinsic anticancer properties and multi-drug co-delivery capacity for combination cancer therapy

The development of effective carriers enabling combination cancer therapy is of practical importance due to its potential to enhance the effectiveness of cancer treatment. However, most of the reported carriers are monofunctional in nature. The carriers that can be applied to concomitantly mediate multiple treatment modalities are highly deficient. This study fills this gap by reporting the design and fabrication of ROS-generating carbohydrate-based pH-responsive beads with intrinsic anticancer therapy and multidrug co-delivery capacity for combination cancer therapy. Sodium alginate (SA) microspheres and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-embedded chitosan (CS) beads are developed via emulsion-templated ionic gelation for a combination therapy involving co-delivery of curcumin (CUR) and 5-fluororacil (5-FU). Drug-encapsulated microbeads are characterized by FTIR, DSC, TGA, XRD, and SEM. 5-FU and CUR-encapsulated microbeads are subjected to in vitro drug release studies at pH 6.8 and 1.2 at 37 °C. Various release kinetic parameters are evaluated. The results show that the Korsmeyer-Peppas model and non-Fickian release kinetics are best suited. The microspheres and microbeads are found to effectively act against MCF7 cells and show intrinsic anticancer capacity. These results indicate the promising performance of our beads in mediating combination drug therapy to improve the effectiveness of cancer treatment.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Drug delivery - 29(2022), 1 vom: 10. Dez., Seite 2481-2490

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Boddu, Adilakshmi [VerfasserIn]
Obireddy, Sreekanth Reddy [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Dahong [VerfasserIn]
Rao, K S V Krishna [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Wing-Fu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

7782-42-5
9012-76-4
Alginates
Anti-cancer
Carbohydrate
Chitosan
Curcumin
Drug Carriers
Fluorouracil
Graphene oxide
Graphite
IT942ZTH98
Journal Article
Reactive Oxygen Species
Reduced graphene oxide
Sodium alginate
U3P01618RT

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 02.08.2022

Date Revised 05.08.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/10717544.2022.2100512

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344325016