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BIOMACROMOLECULES
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 1144-1151Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bm300046h
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- NSF CAREER
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0852308] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Currently, there is high interest in developing multifunctional theranostic platforms for cancer monitoring and chemotherapy. Herein, we report hyaluronan (HA)-coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (HA-SPION) as a promising system for targeted imaging and drug delivery. When incubated with cancer cells, HA-SPIONs were rapidly taken up and the internalization of HA-SPION by cancer cells was much higher than the NPs without HA coating. The high magnetic relaxivity of HA-SPION coupled with enhanced uptake enabled magnetic resonance imaging of cancer cells. Furthermore, doxorubicin (DOX) was attached onto the nanoparticles through an acid responsive linker. While HA-SPION was not toxic to cells, DOX-HA-SPION was much more potent than free DOX to kill not only drug-sensitive but also multi-drug-resistant cancer cells. This was attributed to differential uptake mechanisms and cellular distributions of free DOX and DOX-HA-SPION in cancer cells.
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