Niu, S;
Zhang, X;
Williams, GR;
Wu, J;
Gao, F;
Fu, Z;
Chen, X;
... Zhu, L-M; + view all
(2021)
Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Gated by Chitosan-Copper Sulfide Composites as Theranostic Agents for the Treatment of Breast Cancer.
Acta Biomaterialia
, 126
pp. 408-420.
10.1016/j.actbio.2021.03.024.
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Abstract
The combination of chemotherapy and photothermal therapy (PTT) into a single formulation has attracted increasing attention as a strategy for enhancing cancer treatment. Here, hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles (HMSNs) were used as a base carrier material, loaded with the anti-cancer drug doxorubicin (DOX), and surface functionalized with chitosan (CS) and copper sulfide (CuS) nanodots to give HMSNs-CS-DOX@CuS. In this formulation, the CuS dots act as gatekeepers to seal the surface pores of the HMSNs, preventing a burst release of DOX into the systemic circulation. S-S bonds connect the CuS dots to the HMSNs; these are selectively cleaved under the reducing microenvironment of the tumor, permitting targeted drug release. This, coupled with the PTT properties of CuS, results in a potent chemo/PTT platform. The HMSNs-CS-DOX@CuS nanoparticles have a uniform size (150 ± 13 nm), potent photothermal properties (η= 36.4 %), and tumor-targeted and near infrared (NIR) laser irradiation-triggered DOX release. In vitro and in vivo experimental results confirmed that the material has good biocompatibility, but is effectively taken up by cancer cells. Moreover, the CuS nanodots permit, simultaneous thermal/photoacoustic dual-modality imaging. Treatment with HMSNs-CS-DOX@CuS and NIR irradiation caused extensive apoptosis in cancer cells both in vitro and in vivo, and could dramatically extend the lifetimes of animals in a murine breast cancer model. The system developed in this work therefore merits further investigation as a potential nanotheranostic platform for cancer treatment.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles Gated by Chitosan-Copper Sulfide Composites as Theranostic Agents for the Treatment of Breast Cancer |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.actbio.2021.03.024 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2021.03.024 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Combination therapy, Hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles, Copper sulfide, Photoacoustic imaging, Nanotheranostic |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy > Pharmaceutics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10124320 |
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