期刊
ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS
卷 54, 期 5, 页码 613-630出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-409X(02)00041-8
关键词
thermally responsive polymer; elastin-like polypeptide; poly(N-isopropylacrylamide); lower critical solution temperature; hyperthermia; pH-controlled release; tumor; cancer therapy; targeted drug delivery
This review article summarizes recent results on the development of macromolecular carriers for thermal targeting of therapeutics to solid tumors. This approach employs thermally responsive polymers in conjunction with targeted heating of the tumor. The two thermally responsive polymers that are discussed in this article. poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-coacrylamide) (poly(NIPAAm)) and an artificial elastin-like polypeptide (ELP), were designed to exhibit a soluble-insoluble lower critical solution transition in response to increased temperature slightly above 37 degreesC. In vivo fluorescent videomicroscopy and radiolabel distribution studies of ELP delivery to human tumors implanted in nude mice demonstrated that hyperthermic targeting of the thermally responsive ELP for 1 h provides a similar totwo-fold increase in tumor localization compared to the same polypeptide without hyperthermia. Similar results were also obtained for poly(NIPAAm) though the extent of accumulation was somewhat lesser than observed for the ELP. The endocytotic uptake of a thermally responsive ELP was also observed to be significantly enhanced by the thermally triggered phase transition of the polypeptide in cell culture for three different tumor cell lines. Preliminary cytotoxicity studies of an ELP-doxorubicin conjugate indicate that the ELP-doxcrubicin conjugate has near equivalent cytotoxicity as free doxorubicin in a cell culture assay. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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