期刊
ARTIFICIAL CELLS NANOMEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 47, 期 1, 页码 330-340出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/21691401.2018.1557670
关键词
Dendrimer; curcumin; folic acid; magnetic nanoparticles; thermo-chemotherapy
资金
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A novel multifunctional nanoplatform constructed from methoxy-PEGylated poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) generation 3 dendrimers with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) entrapped in their core, containing curcumin as the payload drug and folic acid (folate) as the targeting ligand (abbreviated as FA-mPEG-PAMAM G3-CUR@SPIONs), is presented in this study. SPIONs entrapped in the core of the nanocomplex may act as a hyperthermia agent and generate localized heat upon excitation with an alternating magnetic field (AMF), thus enabling a thermo-chemotherapy strategy for cancer treatment. Accordingly, the cytotoxic effect and the mode of cell death triggered by the nanocomplex in combination with AMF were evaluated on two different cancer cell lines with various folate receptor (FR) expression levels, including KB nasopharyngeal cancer cells overexpressing FR as the model and MCF-7 breast cancer cells with low level of FRs as the blank sample. The obtained results showed that KB cell death was greater than the cell death observed in MCF-7 cells. Moreover, a majority of cell death in both cell lines were related to apoptosis when the folate-modified nanocomplex was used instated of the non-folate-modified nanocomplex. Therefore, functionalizing the nanocomplex with folate modulated the response to thermo-chemotherapy by shifting the cell death pathways toward apoptosis.
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