TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Liu, Xiudong A1 - Zhou, Huofei A1 - Yu, Weiting A1 - Xiong, Xu A1 - Krastev, Rumen A1 - Ma, Xiaojun T1 - Preparation of cationic amphiphilic nanoparticles with modified chitosan derivatives for doxorubicin delivery JF - Materials N2 - Polymeric micelle-like nanoparticles have demonstrated effectiveness for the delivery of some poorly soluble or hydrophobic anticancer drugs. In this study, a hydrophobic moiety, deoxycholic acid (DCA) was first bonded on a polysaccharide, chitosan (CS), for the preparation of amphiphilic chitosan (CS-DCA), which was further modified with a cationic glycidyltrimethylammounium chloride (GTMAC) to form a novel soluble chitosan derivative (HT-CS-DCA). The cationic amphiphilic HT-CS-DCA was easily self-assembled to micelle-like nanoparticles about 200 nm with narrow size distribution (PDI 0.08–0.18). The zeta potential of nanoparticles was in the range of 14 to 24 mV, indicating higher positive charges. Then, doxorubicin (DOX), an anticancer drug with poor solubility, was entrapped into HT-CS-DCA nanoparticles. The DOX release test was performed in PBS (pH 7.4) at 37 °C, and the results showed that there was no significant burst release in the first two hours, and the cumulative release increased steadily and slowly in the following hours. HT-CS-DCA nanoparticles loaded with DOX could easily enter into MCF-7 cells, as observed by a confocal microscope. As a result, DOX-loaded HT-CS-DCA nanoparticles demonstrated a significant inhibition activity on MCF-7 growth without obvious cellular toxicity in comparison with blank nanoparticles. Therefore, the anticancer efficacy of these cationic HT-CS-DCA nanoparticles showed great promise for the delivery of DOX in cancer therapy. KW - cationic amphiphilic chitosan KW - self-assembled nanoparticles KW - doxorubicin KW - drug delivery Y1 - 2021 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-35047 SN - 1996-1944 SS - 1996-1944 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14227010 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14227010 VL - 14 IS - 22 SP - 11 S1 - 11 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER -