Pharmaceutics (Aug 2023)

M1 Macrophage-Biomimetic Targeted Nanoparticles Containing Oxygen Self-Supplied Enzyme for Enhancing the Chemotherapy

  • Jiayi Zhang,
  • Bing Gu,
  • Shimiao Wu,
  • Lin Liu,
  • Ying Gao,
  • Yucen Yao,
  • Degong Yang,
  • Juan Du,
  • Chunrong Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15092243
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 9
p. 2243

Abstract

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Tumor hypoxia is considered one of the key causes of the ineffectiveness of various strategies for cancer treatment, and the non-specific effects of chemotherapy drugs on tumor treatment often lead to systemic toxicity. Thus, we designed M1 macrophage-biomimetic-targeted nanoparticles (DOX/CAT@PLGA-M1) which contain oxygen self-supplied enzyme (catalase, CAT) and chemo-therapeutic drug (doxorubicin, DOX). The particle size of DOX/CAT@PLGA-M1 was 202.32 ± 2.27 nm (PDI 3), which further proved the active targeting effect of the M1 macrophage membrane. Above all, a novel multifunctional nano-therapy was developed which improved tumor hypoxia and obtained tumor targeting activity.

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