Development of transferrin-bearing vesicles encapsulating aspirin for cancer therapy

Sakpakdeejaroen, Intouch and Somani, Sukrut and Mullin, Margaret and Dufès, Christine (2019) Development of transferrin-bearing vesicles encapsulating aspirin for cancer therapy. Journal of Liposome Research. ISSN 0898-2104 (In Press)

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Abstract

Originally developed for the treatment of inflammatory disorders, the non-steroidal antiinflammatory drug aspirin was shown to have a preventive effect against cancer in the past decades. Most importantly, recent studies suggested that it might also provide a therapeutic benefit in the treatment of cancer in vitro. However, this drug failed to specifically reach tumors at a therapeutic concentration following intravenous administration, thus resulting in lack of efficacy on tumors. In this work, we demonstrated that aspirin could be formulated in transferrin-bearing vesicles and that this tumor-targeted formulation could lead to an increase in the anti-proliferative efficacy of the drug in three cancer cell lines in vitro. The in vitro therapeutic efficacy of aspirin was significantly improved when formulated in transferrin-bearing vesicles, by about 2-fold compared to that of drug solution. These results are promising and support the optimization of this delivery system to further improve its potential as a therapeutic tool in combination with other anti-cancer therapies.

ORCID iDs

Sakpakdeejaroen, Intouch ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5045-7581, Somani, Sukrut ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0697-1110, Mullin, Margaret and Dufès, Christine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7963-6364;
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