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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING C-MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Volume 119, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2020.111598
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Conducting polymers; Electrochemical sensors; Nanogels; Photothermal therapy
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- MINECO [RTI2018-098951-B-I00]
- Agencia de Gestio d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca [2017SGR359]
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Germany, NanoMatFutur Award ThermoNanogele [13N12561]
- IKERBASQUE-Basque Foundation for Science
- Generalitat de Catalunya
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A semi-interpenetrated nanogel designed to release and sense diclofenac as a photothermal agent for cancer cell ablation shows promise when combined with chemotherapy. The study demonstrates the potential of semi-interpenetrated nanogels for drug delivery, sensing capabilities, and mild photothermal therapy, with the ability to kill 95% of cells in vitro.
Semi-interpenetrated nanogels (NGs) able to release and sense diclofenac (DIC) have been designed to act as photothermal agents with the possibility to ablate cancer cells using mild-temperatures (< 45 degrees C). Combining mild heat treatments with simultaneous chemotherapy appears as a very promising therapeutic strategy to avoid heat resistance or damaging the surrounding tissues. Particularly, NGs consisted on a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) and dendritic polyglycerol (dPG) mesh containing a semi-interpenetrating network (SIPN) of poly(hydroxymethyl 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PHMeEDOT). The PHMeEDOT acted as photo thermal and conducting agent, while PNIPAM-dPG NG provided thermoresponsivity and acted as stabilizer. We studied how semi-interpenetration modified the physicochemical characteristics of the thermoresponsive SIPN NGs and selected the best condition to generate a multifunctional photothermal agent. The thermoswitchable conductiveness of the multifunctional NGs and the redox activity of DIC could be utilized for its electrochemical detection. Besides, as proof of the therapeutic concept, we investigated the combinatorial effect of photothermal therapy (PTT) and DIC treatment using the HeLa cancer cell line in vitro. Within 15 min NIR irradiation without surpassing 45 degrees C we were able to kill 95% of the cells, demonstrating the potential of SIPN NGs as drug carriers, sensors and agents for mild PTT.
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