Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1987311 | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules | 2011 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Intracellular drug delivery is an important rout to reverse drug resistance of tumor cells. In this study, the linoleic acid (LA)-grafted chitosan oligosaccharide (CSO) was synthesized to construct a micellar delivery system for intracellular delivery. The synthesized linoleic acid-grafted chitosan oligosaccharide (CSO-LA) with 10.3% graft ratio of LA could form micelles in aqueous with 86.69 μg/ml critical micellar concentration (CMC). The CSO-LA micelle had 46.2 ± 3.6 nm number average diameter and 36.0 ± 3.3 mV zeta potential. Taking doxorubicin base (DOX) as a model drug, the drug-loaded CSO-LA micelles (CSO-LA/DOX) was then prepared. The drug encapsulation efficiencies of CSO-LA/DOX were as high as 80%, and the drug loading capacity could be improved by increasing the charged DOX. Using MCF-7, Doxorubicin·HCl resistant MCF-7 (MCF-7/ADR), K562 and Doxorubicin·HCl resistant K562 (K562/ADR) cells as model drug sensitive and drug resistant tumor cells, the experiments demonstrated the CSO-LA had excellent cellular uptake ability by either drug sensitive tumor cells or drug resistance tumor cells. The CSO-LA micelles could deliver DOX into tumor cells, and the DOX in cells was increased with incubation time. As a result, the cytotoxicities of DOX encapsulated in CSO-LA micelles against drug resistance tumor cells were improved significantly, comparing to that of Doxorubicin·HCl solution.
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Authors
Yong-Zhong Du, Ling Wang, Hong Yuan, Fu-Qiang Hu,