Abstract
In this study, polypeptide-based nanoparticles [constituted using poly(l-lysine) coupled with deoxycholic acid (DOCA) and conjugated with 2,3-dimethylmaleic acid (DMA)] have high tumor selectivity once electrostatically switched by the acidic milieu of solid tumors. These nanoparticles exhibited a significantly increased in vitro cellular uptake and high accumulation in the acidic tumor site in vivo. Consequently, Fe 3O4-loaded nanoparticles enabled high contrast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the tumor in vivo.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 127-134 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | International Journal of Pharmaceutics |
| Volume | 471 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 25 Aug 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was financially supported by a grant of the Korean Health Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare (No. A111291 ), and by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education ( NRF-2013R1A1A2010074 ), Republic of Korea.
Keywords
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Surface charge switching nanoparticle
- pH-Responsive
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