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Coating Solid Lipid Nanoparticles with Hyaluronic Acid Enhances Antitumor Activity against Melanoma Stem-like Cells
- Source :
- Theranostics
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Ivyspring International Publisher, 2015.
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Abstract
- Successful anticancer chemotherapy requires targeting tumors efficiently and further potential to eliminate cancer stem cell (CSC) subpopulations. Since CD44 is present on many types of CSCs, and it binds specially to hyaluronic acid (HA), we tested whether coating solid lipid nanoparticles with hyaluronan (HA-SLNs)would allow targeted delivery of paclitaxel (PTX) to CD44-overexpressing B16F10 melanoma cells. First, we developed a model system based on melanoma stem-like cells for experiments in vitro and in mouse xenografts, and we showed that cells expressing high levels of CD44 (CD44(+)) displayed a strong CSC phenotype while cells expressing low levels of CD44 (CD44(-)) did not. This phenotype included sphere and colony formation, higher proportion of side population cells, expression of CSC-related markers (ALDH, CD133, Oct-4) and tumorigenicity in vivo. Next we showed that administering PTX-loaded HA-SLNs led to efficient intracellular delivery of PTX and induced substantial apoptosis in CD44(+) cells in vitro. In the B16F10-CD44(+) lung metastasis model, PTX-loaded HA-SLNs targeted the tumor-bearing lung tissues well and subsequently exhibited significant antitumor effects with a relative low dose of PTX, which provided significant survival benefit without evidence of adverse events. These findings suggest that the HA-SLNs targeting system shows promise for enhancing cancer therapy.
- Subjects :
- Paclitaxel
Hyaluronic acid
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Antineoplastic Agents
Apoptosis
Pharmacology
Biology
Mice
chemistry.chemical_compound
In vivo
Cancer stem cell
Cell Line, Tumor
medicine
Animals
Humans
CD44
Melanoma
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)
medicine.disease
Lipids
In vitro
Hyaluronan Receptors
chemistry
Neoplastic Stem Cells
biology.protein
Nanoparticles
Female
Cancer stem-like cell
Research Paper
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18387640
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Theranostics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f948091a3f7fcf65a733fb600df9a5a5
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7150/thno.10804