Intracellularly Degradable, Self-Assembled Amphiphilic Block Copolycurcumin Nanoparticles for Efficient In Vivo Cancer Chemotherapy.

Lv, Li; Guo, Yuan; Shen, Yuanyuan; Liu, Jieying; Zhang, Wenjun; Zhou, Dejian; Guo, Shengrong · Adv Healthc Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Intracellularly degradable, self-assembled amphiphilic biotin-poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(curcumin-dithiodipropionic acid) nanoparticles are developed. They display excellent in vivo anticancer efficacy, benefitted from their high tumor-targeted accumulation and stimuli-triggered intracellular drug release. They can be loaded with other anticancer drugs (e.g., doxorubicin) to exploit the synergy of combinational dual-drug therapy to further enhance in vivo anticancer efficacy.

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