Smart Porous Silicon Nanoparticles with Polymeric Coatings for Sequential Combination Therapy

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• 作者：Wujun Xu ; Rinez Thapa ; Dongfei Liu ; Tuomo Nissinen ; Sari Granroth ; Ale N盲rv盲nen ; Mika Suvanto ; H茅lder A. Santos ; Vesa-Pekka Lehto
• 刊名：Molecular Pharmaceutics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 2, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：12
• 期：11
• 页码：4038-4047
• 全文大小：542K
• ISSN：1543-8392

文摘

In spite of the advances in drug delivery, the preparation of smart nanocomposites capable of precisely controlled release of multiple drugs for sequential combination therapy is still challenging. Here, a novel drug delivery nanocomposite was prepared by coating porous silicon (PSi) nanoparticles with poly(beta-amino ester) (PAE) and Pluronic F-127, respectively. Two anticancer drugs, doxorubicin (DOX) and paclitaxel (PTX), were separately loaded into the core of PSi and the shell of F127. The nanocomposite displayed enhanced colloidal stability and good cytocompatibility. Moreover, a spatiotemporal drug release was achieved for sequential combination therapy by precisely controlling the release kinetics of the two tested drugs. The release of PTX and DOX occurred in a time-staggered manner; PTX was released much faster and earlier than DOX at pH 7.0. The grafted PAE on the external surface of PSi acted as a pH-responsive nanovalve for the site-specific release of DOX. In vitro cytotoxicity tests demonstrated that the DOX and PTX coloaded nanoparticles exhibited a better synergistic effect than the free drugs in inducing cellular apoptosis. Therefore, the present study demonstrates a promising strategy to enhance the efficiency of combination cancer therapies by precisely controlling the release kinetics of different drugs.