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ArticleDrug design, development and therapy2017

Combinatorial and sequential delivery of gemcitabine and oseltamivir phosphate from implantable poly(d,l-lactic-co-glycolic acid) cylinders disables human pancreatic cancer cell survival.

Stephanie Allison Logan, Amanda J Brissenden, Myron R Szewczuk, Ronald J Neufeld

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Article in Drug design, development and therapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephanie Allison LoganDepartment of Chemical Engineering.
Amanda J BrissendenDepartment of Chemical Engineering.
Myron R SzewczukDepartment of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Ronald J NeufeldDepartment of Chemical Engineering.
Queen's University · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combination therapies against multiple targets are currently being developed to prevent resistance to a single chemotherapeutic agent and to extirpate pre-existing resistance in heterogeneous cancer cells in tumors due to selective pressure from the single agent. Gemcitabine (GEM), a chemotherapeutic agent, is the current standard of care for patients with pancreatic cancer. Patients with pancreatic cancer receiving GEM have a low progression-free survival. Given the poor response rate to GEM, cancer cells are known to develop rapid resistance to this drug. Metronomic chemotherapy using combinatorial and sequential delivery systems are novel developmental approaches to disrupt tumor neovascularization, reduce systemic drug toxicity, and increase the sensitivity of chemotherapeutics in cancer. Here, implantable double-layered poly(d,l-lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) cylinders were engineered to sequentially release GEM in combination with oseltamivir phosphate (OP) over an extended time. Double-layered PLGA cylindrical implants loaded with these active hydrophilic drugs were fabricated with minimal loss of drugs during the formulation, enabling extensive control of drug loading and establishing uniform drug distribution throughout the polymer matrix. OP is used in the formulation because of its anticancer drug properties targeting mammalian neuraminidase 1 (Neu1) involved in multistage tumorigenesis. OP and GEM encapsulated in inner/outer GEM

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Drug Delivery SystemsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationCell SurvivalCombined Modality TherapyDeoxycytidineDose-Response Relationship, DrugDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorGemcitabineHumansLactic AcidMolecular StructureOseltamivirPancreatic NeoplasmsPhosphorous AcidsDeoxycytidineGemcitabineLactic AcidOseltamivirPhosphorous AcidsPolyglycolic AcidPolylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymertamiphosphorchemoresistancegemcitabineoseltamivir phosphatepancreatic cancerPLGA

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PMID28814832
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