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ArticleMolecular cancer therapeutics2015

Multifunctional Polymeric Micelles Co-loaded with Anti-Survivin siRNA and Paclitaxel Overcome Drug Resistance in an Animal Model of Ovarian Cancer.

Giuseppina Salzano, Gemma Navarro, Malav S Trivedi, Giuseppe De Rosa, Vladimir P Torchilin

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Article in Molecular cancer therapeutics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33 citing papers in PubMed, 92 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Giuseppina SalzanoCenter for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Gemma NavarroCenter for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Malav S TrivediDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Giuseppe De RosaDepartment of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Vladimir P TorchilinCenter for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. v.torchilin@neu.edu.
Northeastern University · USFederico II University Hospital · IT

Funding

Physico-Chemical Nanocharacterization CoreU54CA151881 · NCI · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI TORCHILIN, VLADIMIR P · 2010 to 2014
$12.4M
NCI NIH HHS 5U54CA151881NCI NIH HHS U54 CA151881
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ovarian cancer is a dreadful disease estimated to be the second most common gynecologic malignancy worldwide. Its current therapy, based on cytoreductive surgery followed by the combination of platinum and taxanes, is frequently complicated by the onset of multidrug resistance (MDR). The discovery that survivin, a small antiapoptotic protein, is involved in chemoresistance provided a new prospect to overcome MDR in cancer, because siRNA could be used to inhibit the expression of survivin in cancer cells. With this in mind, we have developed self-assembly polymeric micelles (PM) able to efficiently co-load an anti-survivin siRNA and a chemotherapeutic agent, such as paclitaxel (PXL; survivin siRNA/PXL PM). Previously, we have successfully demonstrated that the downregulation of survivin by using siRNA-containing PM strongly sensitizes different cancer cells to paclitaxel. Here, we have evaluated the applicability of the developed multifunctional PM in vivo. Changes in survivin expression, therapeutic efficacy, and biologic effects of the nanopreparation were investigated in an animal model of paclitaxel-resistant ovarian cancer. The results obtained in mice xenografed with SKOV3-tr revealed a significant downregulation of survivin expression in tumor tissues together with a potent anticancer activity of survivin siRNA/PXL PM, while the tumors remained unaffected with the same quantity of free paclitaxel. These promising results introduce a novel type of nontoxic and easy-to-obtain nanodevice for the combined therapy of siRNA and anticancer agents in the treatment of chemoresistant tumors.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAnimalsAntineoplastic Agents, PhytogenicApoptosisCell Line, TumorDisease Models, AnimalDown-RegulationDrug Resistance, NeoplasmFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansImmunohistochemistryInhibitor of Apoptosis ProteinsMiceMicellesMicrotubulesAntineoplastic Agents, PhytogenicBIRC5 protein, humanInhibitor of Apoptosis ProteinsMicellesPaclitaxelRNA, MessengerRNA, Small InterferingSurvivin

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PMID25657335
PMCPMC4394040
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