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High tolerated paclitaxel nano-formulation delivered by poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid)-g-dextran micelles to efficient cancer therapy

Journal

NANOMEDICINE-NANOTECHNOLOGY BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 855-866

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2015.02.002

Keywords

Dextran; Paclitaxel; Drug delivery; Maximum tolerated dose (MTD); Tumor therapy

Funding

  1. National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2009CB930300]
  2. National Nature Science Foundation of China [81072583, 81373345]
  3. Nature Science Foundation of Zhejiang province [LZ13H300001]

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The amphiphilic graft copolymer poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid)-g-dextran (Dex-PLGA) was successfully synthesized to fabricate micelles for the delivery of paclitaxel with low critical micelle concentration (CMC). The sizes of paclitaxel-loaded Dex-PLGA (Dex-PLGA/PTX) micelles were kept below 100 nm with a relatively narrow size distribution. This novel PTX nano-formulation was found to exhibit slightly stronger in vitro cytotoxicity against SKOV-3, OVCAR-8 and MCF-7 cells with Taxol (R). However, it could overcome the drug resistance of multi-drug resistant human breast carcinoma cells (MCF-7/Adr cells). The maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of Dex-PLGA/PTX after a single dose was more than 200 mg PTX/kg, which were 8-fold higher than that of Paclitaxel Injection. The in vivo antitumor activity results indicated that Dex-PLGA/PTX micelles treatments effectively suppressed the tumor growth and highly reduced the toxicity against animals than Taxol (R) and could eliminate the SKOV-3 tumor by highly increasing the drug dose. From the Clinical Editor: Chemotherapy for cancer has always been hampered the toxic side effect of the drugs. Nanotechnology has helped to produce various drug delivery systems to minimize these side effects. In this article, the authors designed dextran-based micelles loaded with paclitaxel. They showed effective anti-tumor activity in both in vitro and in vivo experiments with significant lower systemic toxicity. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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