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.
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Sakpakdeejaroen, Intouch ![]() ![]() ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 67656 |
Keywords: | aspirin, transferrin, tumor targeting, drug delivery, cancer therapy, Therapeutics. Pharmacology, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer), Pharmacology (medical), Oncology |
Subjects: | Medicine > Therapeutics. Pharmacology Medicine > Internal medicine > Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) |
Department: | Faculty of Science > Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 30 Apr 2019 14:16 |
Last modified: | 07 Jan 2021 02:27 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/67656 |
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