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JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 2325-2331Publisher
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2010.1913
Keywords
Fe2O4 Nanoparticles; Genistein; Drug Delivery; Gastric Cancer Cell Line SGC-7901
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- New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [20503011, 20621091]
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The practical application of genistein as a low toxicity chemotherapeutic drug is hindered by many of its in vivo properties. To overcome these obstacles, a new multifunctional drug delivery system is developed, which is based on covalently attaching genistein onto Fe3O4 nanoparticles coated by cross-linked carboxymethylated chitosan (CMCH). The structure of the Fe3O4-CMCH-genistein nano-conjugate was confirmed by transmission electron micrographs (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier-transfer infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The nano-conjugate shows good water solubility and superparamagnetic properties with a saturation magnetization of 55.1 emu/g. The effects of free genistein and Fe3O4-CMCH-genistein nano-conjugate on the proliferation and apoptosis of gastric cancer cell line SGC-7901 were investigated by MTT assay and flow cytometry (FACS). MTT results indicate that the Fe3O4-CMCH-genistein nano-conjugate exhibits a significantly enhanced inhibition effect to the SGC-7901 cancer cells than the free genistein. FACS data suggests that the inhibition on cell proliferation of the nano-conjugate is related with an induced apoptosis process. This drug delivery system is promising for future multifunctional chemotherapeutic application that combines drug release and magnetic hyperthermia therapy.
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