pH and redox dual responsive carrier-free anticancer drug nanoparticles for targeted delivery and synergistic therapy

Mengjiao Zhou, Weijia Wei, Xianfeng Chen, Xiuzhen Xu, Xiaohong Zhang, Xiujuan Zhang

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Advanced drug delivery systems often employ nanomaterials as carriers to deliver drugs to desirable disease sites for enhanced efficacy. However, most systems have low drug loading capacity and cause safety concerns. Therefore, many anticancer therapeutics have recently been assembled to NPs form without using any additional nanocarrier to achieve high drug loading. However, carrier-free nanomedicines are often constrained by limitations such as inadequate stability and lack of control in drug release. Therefore, we synthesize carrier-free drug NPs containing cis-aconitic anhydride-modified doxorubicin and paclitaxel (CAD-PTX) and coating with crosslinked (CL) surfactant based on hyaluronic acid (HA) segment. With this design, the pure drug NPs possess pH and redox dual responsive release characteristic and could target CD44 overexpressed cancer cells. Our studies demonstrate that these CAD-PTX-CLHA NPs display high stability, excellent active targeting effect and controllable intracellular drug release, and ultimately achieve significantly better anti-cancer efficiency than individual doxorubicin and paclitaxel.
Original languageEnglish
JournalNanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
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Publication statusPublished - 20 May 2019

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