Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS APPLICATIONS
Volume 37, Issue 10, Pages 1847-1857Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/08853282231172837
Keywords
Combined therapy; thermo-sensitive hydrogel; liposomes; elemene; nano graphene oxide; glycyrrhetinic acid
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Due to the complexity of tumor microenvironment, combination therapy has received increasing attention. In this study, a thermo-sensitive hydrogel loading with elemene (ELE)-loaded and nano graphene oxide (NGO)-based liposomes was prepared for enhanced combined therapy. The results showed that the ELE-GA/NGO-Lip-gel had high anti-tumor efficiency against SMMC-7721 cells upon 808 nm laser irradiation. This research might provide a potent platform for combined tumor therapy using thermos-sensitive injectable hydrogel.
Due to the heterogeneity and the complexity of the tumor microenvironment, combination therapy, especially the combination of chemotherapy and photothermal therapy (PTT), had received increasing attention. However, the co-delivery of small molecule drugs for chemotherapy and photothermal agents was a key issue. Herein, we prepared a novel thermo-sensitive hydrogel loading with elemene (ELE)-loaded and nano graphene oxide (NGO)-based liposomes for enhanced combined therapy. ELE was applied as the model drug for chemotherapy because it was a natural sesquiterpene drug with broad-spectrum and efficient antitumor activity. NGO was applied as drug carrier and photothermal agent simultaneously due to its two-dimensional structure and high photo-thermal conversion efficacy. NGO was further modified with glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) to improve its water dispersion, biocompatibility and tumor-targeting ability. ELE was loaded by GA-modified NGO (GA/NGO) to prepare the liposomes designated as ELE-GA/NGO-Lip, which was further mixed with chitosan (CS) solution and beta-glycerin sodium phosphate (beta-GP) solution to prepare the thermo-sensitive hydrogel designated as ELE-GA/NGO-Lip-gel. The obtained ELE-GA/NGO-Lip-gel had the gelling temperature of 37 degrees C, temperature and pH-response gel dissolution and high photo-thermal conversion effect. More importantly, ELE-GA/NGO-Lip-gel upon 808 nm laser irradiation had relative high anti-tumor efficiency against SMMC-7721 cells in vitro. This research might provide a potent platform for the application of thermos-sensitive injectable hydrogel in combined tumor therapy.
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