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ArticlePharmaceutics2019

Hyperthermia-Triggered Doxorubicin Release from Polymer-Coated Magnetic Nanorods.

Felisa Reyes-Ortega, Blanca Luna Checa Fernández, Angel V Delgado, Guillermo R Iglesias

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2019. 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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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Felisa Reyes-OrtegaDepartment of Applied Physics, School of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. felisareyes@ugr.es.ORCID 0000-0003-2102-7432
Blanca Luna Checa FernándezDepartment of Applied Physics, School of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. lunachecaf@ugr.es.
Angel V DelgadoDepartment of Applied Physics, School of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. adelgado@ugr.es.ORCID 0000-0003-1843-5750
Guillermo R IglesiasDepartment of Applied Physics, School of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. iglesias@ugr.es.ORCID 0000-0002-5623-1516

Funding

Consejería de Economía, Innovación, Ciencia y Empleo, Junta de Andalucía PE2012-FQM694Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España Ramón y Cajal programme (RYC-2014-16901).
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, it is proposed that polymer-coated magnetic nanorods (MNRs) can be used with the advantage of a double objective: first, to serve as magnetic hyperthermia agents, and second, to be used as magnetic vehicles for the antitumor drug doxorubicin (DOX). Two different synthetic methodologies (hydrothermal and co-precipitation) were used to obtain MNRs of maghemite and magnetite. They were coated with poly(ethyleneimine) and poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate), and loaded with DOX, using the Layer-by-Layer technique. Evidence of the polymer coating and the drug loading was justified by ATR-FTIR and electrophoretic mobility measurements, and the composition of the coated nanorods was obtained by a thermogravimetric analysis. The nanorods were tested as magnetic hyperthermia agents, and it was found that they provided sufficiently large heating rates to be used as adjuvant therapy against solid tumors. DOX loading and release were determined by UV-visible spectroscopy, and it was found that up to 50% of the loaded drug was released in about 5 h, although the rate of release could be regulated by simultaneous application of hyperthermia, which acts as a sort of external release-trigger. Shape control offers another physical property of the particles as candidates to interact with tumor cells, and particles that are not too elongated can easily find their way through the cell membrane.

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biocompatible polymerdoxorubicindrug delivery systemmagnetic hyperthermiamagnetic nanorod

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PMID31597258
PMCPMC6835812

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