A black phosphorus (BP)-based drug delivery system for synergistic photodynamic/photothermal/chemotherapy of cancer is constructed. As a 2D nanosheet, BP shows super high drug loading capacity and pH-/photoresponsive drug release. The intrinsic photothermal and photodynamic effects of BP enhance the antitumor activities. The synergistic photodynamic/photothermal/chemotherapy makes BP-based drug delivery system a multifunctional nanomedicine platform.
Nanodrug-based cancer therapy has been actively developed in the past decades. The main challenges faced by nanodrugs include poor drug loading capacity, rapid clearance from blood circulation, and low antitumor efficiency with high risk of recurrence. In this work, red blood cell (RBC) membrane camouflaged hollow mesoporous Prussian blue nanoparticles (HMPB@RBC NPs) are fabricated for combination therapy of cancer. The stability, immune evading capacity, and blood retention time of HMPB@RBC NPs are significantly enhanced compared with those of bare HMPB NPs. Doxorubicin (DOX), as a model drug is encapsulated within HMPB@RBC NPs with loading capacity up to 130% in weight. In addition, DOX loaded HMPB@RBC NPs show pH-/photoresponsive release. The in vivo studies demonstrate the outstanding performance of DOX@HMPB@RBC NPs in synergistic photothermal-/chemotherapy of cancer.
This study showed that the pathway of miR-141 targeting CXCL12β is a possible mechanism underlying inflammatory cell trafficking during colonic inflammation process. Inhibiting colonic CXCL12β expression and blocking colonic immune cell recruitment by using miRNA precursors represents a promising approach that may be valuable for CD treatment.
Black phosphorus nanosheets were decorated with Ag nanoparticles through an in situ growth strategy, exhibiting synergistic antibacterial activity against drug-resistant bacteria.
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tumor microenvironment (TME) featured by immunosuppression
and hypoxia is pivotal to cancer deterioration and metastasis. Thus,
regulating the TME to improve cancer cell ablation efficiency has
received extensive interest in oncotherapy. However, to reverse the
immunosuppression and alleviate hypoxia simultaneously in the TME
are major challenges for effective cancer therapy. Herein, a multifunctional
platform based on Au nanoparticles and a carbon dots modified hollow
black TiO2 nanosphere (HABT-C) with intrinsic cascade enzyme
mimetic activities is prepared for reversing immunosuppression and
alleviating hypoxia in the TME. The HABT-C NPs possess triple-enzyme
mimetic activity to act as self-cascade nanozymes, which produce sufficient
oxygen to alleviate hypoxia and generate abundant ROS. The theoretical
analysis demonstrates that black TiO2 facilitates absorption
of H2O and O2, separation of electron–holes,
and generation of ROS, consequently amplifying the sonodynamic therapy
(SDT) efficiency. Specifically, HABT-C exhibits favorable inhibition
of immunosuppressive mediator expression, along with infiltrating
of immune effector cells into the TME and reversing the immunosuppression
in the TME. As a result, HABT-C can effectively kill tumor cells via
eliciting immune infiltration, alleviating hypoxia, and improving
SDT efficiency. This cascade nanozyme-based platform (HABT-C@HA) will
provide a strategy for highly efficient SDT against cancer by modulation
of hypoxia and immunosuppression in the TME.
Hepta(3,3,3-trifluoropropyl) polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)-capped poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) was synthesized via the reaction of hydrosilylation between hepta(3,3,3-trifluoropropyl)hydrosilsesquioxane and allyl-terminated PEO. The POSS-capped PEO was characterized by means of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The organic-inorganic amphiphile was incorporated into epoxy resin to prepare the organic-inorganic nanostructured thermosetting composites. The morphology of the hybrid composites was characterized with field emission scanning electronic microscopy (FESEM) and transmission electronic microscopy (TEM). The formation of nanostructures was addressed on the basis of miscibility and phase behavior of the sub-components (viz. POSS and PEO chains) of the organic-inorganic amphiphile with epoxy after and before curing reaction. The static contact angle measurements indicate that the organic-inorganic nanocomposites displayed a significant enhancement in surface hydrophobicity as well as reduction in surface free energy. The atomic force microscopy (AFM) showed that there is significant migration of the POSS moiety at the surface of the thermosets. The improvement in surface properties was ascribed to the enrichment of the POSS moiety on the surface of the nanostructured thermosets, which was evidenced by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
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