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Villar-Alvarez E, Cambón A, Pardo A, Arellano L, Marcos AV, Pelaz B, Del Pino P, Bouzas Mosquera A, Mosquera VX, Almodlej A, Prieto G, Barbosa S, Taboada P. Combination of light-driven co-delivery of chemodrugs and plasmonic-induced heat for cancer therapeutics using hybrid protein nanocapsules. J Nanobiotechnology 2019; 17:106. [PMID: 31615570 PMCID: PMC6794818 DOI: 10.1186/s12951-019-0538-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Improving the water solubility of hydrophobic drugs, increasing their accumulation in tumor tissue and allowing their simultaneous action by different pathways are essential issues for a successful chemotherapeutic activity in cancer treatment. Considering potential clinical application in the future, it will be promising to achieve such purposes by developing new biocompatible hybrid nanocarriers with multimodal therapeutic activity. RESULTS We designed and characterised a hybrid nanocarrier based on human serum albumin/chitosan nanoparticles (HSA/chitosan NPs) able to encapsulate free docetaxel (DTX) and doxorubicin-modified gold nanorods (DOXO-GNRs) to simultaneously exploit the complementary chemotherapeutic activities of both antineoplasic compounds together with the plasmonic optical properties of the embedded GNRs for plasmonic-based photothermal therapy (PPTT). DOXO was assembled onto GNR surfaces following a layer-by-layer (LbL) coating strategy, which allowed to partially control its release quasi-independently release regarding DTX under the use of near infrared (NIR)-light laser stimulation of GNRs. In vitro cytotoxicity experiments using triple negative breast MDA-MB-231 cancer cells showed that the developed dual drug encapsulation approach produces a strong synergistic toxic effect to tumoral cells compared to the administration of the combined free drugs; additionally, PPTT enhances the cytostatic efficacy allowing cell toxicities close to 90% after a single low irradiation dose and keeping apoptosis as the main cell death mechanism. CONCLUSIONS This work demonstrates that by means of a rational design, a single hybrid nanoconstruct can simultaneously supply complementary therapeutic strategies to treat tumors and, in particular, metastatic breast cancers with good results making use of its stimuli-responsiveness as well as its inherent physico-chemical properties.
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- E Villar-Alvarez
- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biológica y Materiales Moleculares (CiQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biológica y Materiales Moleculares (CiQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Departamento de Cirugía Cardíaca, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Cirugía Cardíaca, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Grupo de Biofísica e Interfases, Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias (IDIS) y Agrupación Estratégica de Materiales, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros, Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias (IDIS) y Agrupación Estratégica de Materiales, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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Blanco-Loimil M, Pardo A, Villar-Alvarez E, Martínez-González R, Topete A, Barbosa S, Taboada P, Mosquera V. Development of ordered metal nanoparticle arrangements on solid supports by combining a green nanoparticle synthetic method and polymer templating for sensing applications. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra04925g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
One step, simple, robust and "green" methodology to fabricate high-density ordered arrays of uniform gold nanoparticles and gold nanoparticles clusters at room temperature over large areas which are suitable for high-performance SERS.
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- M. Blanco-Loimil
- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Laboratorio de Inmunología
- Departamento de Fisiología
- Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud
- Universidad de Guadalajara
- 44340 Guadalajara
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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Villar-Alvarez E, Figueroa-Ochoa E, Barbosa S, Soltero JFA, Taboada P, Mosquera V. Reverse poly(butylene oxide)–poly(ethylene oxide)–poly(butylene oxide) block copolymers with lengthy hydrophilic blocks as efficient single and dual drug-loaded nanocarriers with synergistic toxic effects on cancer cells. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra07296d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Reverse triblock copolymer micelles with lengthy polyethylene oxide blocks as efficient sustained dual drug-loaded nanocarriers.
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Affiliation(s)
- E. Villar-Alvarez
- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Laboratorio de Reología
- Departamento de Ingeniería Química
- CUECI, Universidad de Guadalajara
- 44430 Guadalajara
- Mexico
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Laboratorio de Reología
- Departamento de Ingeniería Química
- CUECI, Universidad de Guadalajara
- 44430 Guadalajara
- Mexico
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Coloides y Polímeros
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
- 15782-Santiago de Compostela
- Spain
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