Abstract
Targeted drug delivery is especially important in cancer treatment as many anti-cancer drugs are non-specific and highly toxic to both cancer and normal cells. The targeted drug delivery of DOX to the MUC1-expressing breast cancer cell line (MCF7) was obtained using APT as a carrier. Modification of the APT-DOX complex by PEG increases the survivability of the macrophage control (RAW 264.7) by about six-fold as compared to free DOX treatment without significantly affecting the cytotoxicity toward the target cell line. Thus, PEG-APT-DOX is potentially a new therapeutic agent for targeted drug delivery to MUC1-expressing cell lines.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1331-1335 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Macromolecular Bioscience |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 10 Oct 2011 |
Keywords
- Aptamers
- Biological applications of polymers
- Breast cancer
- Doxorubicin
- Drug delivery systems