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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Anticancer Applications of Nanostructured Silica-Based Materials Functionalized with Titanocene Derivatives: Induction of Cell Death Mechanism through TNFR1 Modulation.

Santiago Gómez-Ruiz, Alberto García-Peñas, Sanjiv Prashar, Antonio Rodríguez-Diéguez, Eva Fischer-Fodor

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A Review of Silica-Based Nanoplatforms for Anticancer Cargo Delivery.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  3. Silica-Based Nanoframeworks Involved Hepatocellular Carcinoma Theranostic.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Santiago Gómez-RuizDepartamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Calle Tulipán s/n, E-28933 Móstoles (Madrid), Spain. santiago.gomez@urjc.es.ORCID 0000-0001-9538-8359
Alberto García-PeñasCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, Guangdong Research Center for Interfacial Engineering of Functional Materials, Nanshan District Key Laboratory for Biopolymers and Safety Evaluation, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China. alberto@szu.edu.cn.
Sanjiv PrasharDepartamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Calle Tulipán s/n, E-28933 Móstoles (Madrid), Spain. sanjiv.prashar@urjc.es.ORCID 0000-0002-6588-878X
Antonio Rodríguez-DiéguezDepartamento de Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus de Fuentenueva, Avda. Fuentenueva s/n, E-18071 Granada, Spain. antonio5@ugr.es.ORCID 0000-0003-3198-5378
Eva Fischer-FodorMedfuture-Research Center for Advanced Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, RO-400337 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. fischer.eva@iocn.ro.ORCID 0000-0002-0898-0547
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos · ESIuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy · ROShenzhen University · CNUniversidad de Granada · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A series of cytotoxic titanocene derivatives have been immobilized onto nanostructured silica-based materials using two different synthetic routes, namely, (i) a simple grafting protocol via protonolysis of the Ti-Cl bond; and (ii) a tethering method by elimination of ethanol using triethoxysilyl moieties of thiolato ligands attached to titanium. The resulting nanostructured systems have been characterized by different techniques such as XRD, XRF, DR-UV, BET, SEM, and TEM, observing the incorporation of the titanocene derivatives onto the nanostructured silica and slight changes in the textural features of the materials after functionalization with the metallodrugs. A complete biological study has been carried out using the synthesized materials exhibiting moderate cytotoxicity in vitro against three human hepatic carcinoma (HepG2, SK-Hep-1, Hep3B) and three human colon carcinomas (DLD-1, HT-29, COLO320) and very low cytotoxicity against normal cell lines. In addition, the cells' metabolic activity was modified by a 24-h exposure in a dose-dependent manner. Despite not having a significant effect on TNFα or the proinflammatory interleukin 1α secretion, the materials strongly modulated tumor necrosis factor (TNF) signaling, even at sub-cytotoxic concentrations. This is achieved mainly by upregulation of the TNFR1 receptor production, something which has not previously been observed for these systems.

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anticancercytotoxicitynanostructured silicatitanoceneTNFR1 modulationtumor necrosis factor

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PMID29385103
PMCPMC5848921
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