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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 454, Issue 1, Pages 11-20Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2013.07.019
Keywords
RNA interference; T7 peptide; Glioma dual targeting; Dendrigraft poly-L-lysines; Transferrin
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2013CB932500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81172993]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University
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Among all the malignant brain tumors, glioma is the deadliest and most common form with poor prognosis. Gene therapy is regarded as a promising way to halt the progress of the disease or even cure the tumor and RNA interference (RNAi) stands out. However, the existence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and blood tumor barrier (BTB) limits the delivery of these therapeutic genes. In this work, the delivery system targeting to the transferrin (Tf) receptor highly expressed on both BBB and glioma was successfully synthesized and would not compete with endogenous Tf. U87 cells stably express luciferase were employed here to simulate tumor and the RNAi experiments in vitro and in vivo validated that the gene silencing activity was 2.17-fold higher with the targeting ligand modification. The dual-targeting gene delivery system exhibits a series of advantages, such as high efficiency, low toxicity, stability and high transaction efficiency, which may provide new opportunities in RNAi therapeutics and nanomedicine of brain tumors. Crown Copyright (c) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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