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Mesoporous and biocompatible chitosan/alginate core-shelled nanoparticles to carrying active enzymes for cancer therapy
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Mesoporous and biocompatible chitosan/alginate core-shelled nanoparticles to carrying active enzymes for cancer therapy

Chia-Wei Kang, Chun-Wei Lee and Fan-Gang Tseng
MicroTAS 2015 - 19th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, pp.814-816
2015

Abstract

In this work, we propose the employment of chitosan/alginate core-shelled mesoporous nanoparticles to serve as enzyme-controlled cancer drug carriers, as shown in Fig. 1. Enzymes are caged and protected inside the nanoparticles for digesting non-toxic pre-drug into cancer drug and then released into tumor cite by diffusion. According to enhanced permeability and retention effect (EPR effect), nanoparticles tend to accumulate in tumor tissue more than normal tissue.[1] The nanoparticles were fabricated by alginate particles electrospraying in corporate with mesoporous chitosan coating.

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