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MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 580-585Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2015.09.025
Keywords
Reduction responsive; Drug delivery system; PTX; Polymer-drug conjugate
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Funding
- International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China [2014DFE40130]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51373035, 51373040, 51573030, 51573028]
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Covalently linked amphiphilic polymer-paclitaxel (PTX) could self-assemble into micelles to overcome many drawbacks of existing delivery systems of PTX by virtue of tunable compositions, variable sizes, high drug loading content and zero burst release. Moreover, a reduction-responsive system based on glutathione (GSH) can be established by introducing disulfide bonds into the polymeric carriers to improve the selectivity for cancer cells. Herein, we reported a disulfide bond linked polymer-PTX, P(PEGMEA)-co-P(PDPHEMA)-g-PTX with a high PTX loading content of 43.7 wt.%. In vitro cell assay showed that the polymer carrier has almost no cytotoxicity. The half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) values of the polymer-PTX conjugate against HEK-293 cells was about 10 times higher than that of HeLa-cells after incubation for 72 h. Such a dramatic selectivity for cancer and normal cells provides a promising strategy to improve the therapeutic efficacy and decrease the side effects of PTX in chemotherapy. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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