Fortified anti-proliferative activity of niclosamide for breast cancer treatment : In-vitro and in-vivo assessment

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Breast cancer represents one of the top lethal cancer types among the females worldwide. Several factors manipulate the clinical outcome of the treatment as the stage of the cancer upon detection, genetic and hormonal factors, drug resistance and metastasis. Accordingly, drug's repositioning, enhancing the bioavailability and encapsulation into nanoparticles (NPs) are among the predilected pathways for enhanced therapeutic outcome. Niclosamide (NIC) is an anthelmintic drug and has been repositioned as anticancer agent after revealing its anti-neoplastic activity. Piperine (PIP) was used as food spice until its anticancer activity was discovered. However, their hydrophobicity constrains their therapeutic efficiency. The cytotoxicity of both drugs in the free form was tested on MCF-7 cells, and the results indicated a NIC cytotoxicity enhancement by PIP. Then, NIC and PIP were encapsulated successfully into F127-NPs with entrapment efficiency of 97 % and 82 %, respectively. Particle size, zeta potential, TEM and FTIR confirmed the micellization process and drug encapsulation. The developed NIC-NPs and PIP-NPs exerted potent anticancer effect as compared to the free forms. Accordingly, the mixture; NIC-NPs/PIP-NPs was tested and its cytotoxicity exceeded the individually encapsulated drugs. Flowcytometry assessment was performed and demonstrated an induced cell death through the apoptotic stage. Additionally, in-vivo therapeutic efficiency of NIC-NPs/PIP-NPs was assessed through Ehrlich ascites tumor and the nanocombination therapy exerted superior additive anticancer effect when compared to NIC-NPs which is attributed to the PIP-NPs induced bioavailability. The study can be considered the first one investigating the PIP role in bioenhancing the anti-proliferative activity of NIC to combat breast cancer.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:316

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Life sciences - 316(2023) vom: 01. März, Seite 121379

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mansour, Amira [VerfasserIn]
Mahmoud, Mohamed Y [VerfasserIn]
Bakr, Alaa F [VerfasserIn]
Ghoniem, Monira G [VerfasserIn]
Adam, Fatima A [VerfasserIn]
El-Sherbiny, Ibrahim M [VerfasserIn]

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8KK8CQ2K8G
Anthelmintics
Anti-proliferative activity
Antineoplastic Agents
Bioenhancer
Journal Article
Nanoparticles
Niclosamide
Piperine
Pluronic

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Date Completed 14.02.2023

Date Revised 14.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.lfs.2023.121379

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM351348158