Materials & Design (Aug 2023)

2-Methoxyestradiol loaded mesoporous polydopamine nanoprobes for hypoxia alleviation and sorafenib synergistic treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

  • Peifeng Wang,
  • Yang Du,
  • Xingyang Zhao,
  • Yueyang Hu,
  • Tianjun Zhou,
  • Xiaolong Liang,
  • Chihua Fang,
  • Jie Tian

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 232
p. 112137

Abstract

Read online

Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common and highly malignant disease. As a currently designated systemic chemotherapeutic agent for advanced Hepatocellular carcinoma, sorafenib has been confronted with dilemma of drug-resistance caused by tumor hypoxia, which hinders the therapeutic efficacy of the drug. Based on this, a multifunctional mesoporous polydopamine nanoprobe 2Me-SPIO-CY5.5@AAZ-MPDA with a mesoporous frame loaded 2-Methoxyestradiol, Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles and the near-infrared dye cyanine 5.5, conjugated with hypoxia Hepatocellular carcinoma-specific targeting molecule of sulfonamides acetazolamide, is fabricated for hypoxic region targeting, sorafenib resistance reversion and photothermal therapy of Hepatocellular carcinoma. In addition, the magnetic resonance imaging/fluorescence/photoacoustic tri-modal imaging ability enables the tracing of the nanoprobes and monitoring the treatment procedure in vivo, providing a new methods of imaging-guided Hepatocellular carcinoma synergic treatment which improves the long-term therapeutic effects of sorafenib.

Keywords