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ArticleColloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces2020

Co-delivery of curcumin and Bcl-2 siRNA by PAMAM dendrimers for enhancement of the therapeutic efficacy in HeLa cancer cells.

Maryam Ghaffari, Gholamreza Dehghan, Behzad Baradaran, Amir Zarebkohan, Behzad Mansoori, Jafar Soleymani, Jafar Ezzati Nazhad Dolatabadi, Michael R Hamblin

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Article in Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 141 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Enhanced anti-tumor therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma via sorafenib and KIAA1199-siRNA co-delivery liposomes.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2024
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  19. Oral delivery of RNAi for cancer therapy.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Maryam GhaffariResearch Center for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran; Student Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Gholamreza DehghanDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
Behzad BaradaranImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Amir ZarebkohanDepartment of Medical Nanotechnology, Faculty of Advanced Medical Science, Tabriz University of Medical Science, Tabriz, Iran.
Behzad MansooriImmunology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Jafar SoleymaniPharmaceutical Analysis Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Jafar Ezzati Nazhad DolatabadiDrug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. Electronic address: ezzatij@tbzmed.ac.ir.
Michael R HamblinWellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Laser Research Centre, Faculty of Health Science, University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein 2028, South Africa. Electronic address: hamblin@helix.mgh.harvard.edu.
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences · IRHarvard University · USUniversity of Tabriz · IR

Funding

Photodynamic Therapy of Localized InfectionsR01AI050875 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HAMBLIN, MICHAEL R · 2003 to 2017
$4.8M
Synergistic Photodynamic Therapy for Catherer-Associated Urinary Tract InfectionsR21AI121700 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HAMBLIN, MICHAEL R · 2016 to 2017
$462k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI050875NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI121700
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Co-delivery of therapeutic agents and small interfering RNA (siRNA) can be achieved by a suitable nanovehicle. In this work, the solubility and bioavailability of curcumin (Cur) were enhanced by entrapment in a polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimer, and a polyplex was formed by grafting Bcl-2 siRNA onto the surface amine groups to produce PAMAM-Cur/Bcl-2 siRNA nanoparticles (NPs). The synthesized polyplex NPs had a particle size of ∼180 nm, and high Cur loading content of ∼82 wt%. Moreover, the PAMAM-Cur/Bcl-2 siRNA NPs showed more effective cellular uptake, and higher inhibition of tumor cell proliferation compared to PAMAM-Cur nanoformulation and free Cur, due to the combined effect of co-delivery of Cur and Bcl-2 siRNA. The newly described PAMAM-Cur/Bcl-2 siRNA polyplex NPs could be a promising co-delivery nanovehicle.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAntineoplastic AgentsCell ProliferationCurcuminDendrimersDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorHeLa CellsHumansParticle SizeProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2RNA, Small InterferingSurface PropertiesAntineoplastic AgentsBCL2 protein, humanCurcuminDendrimersPAMAM StarburstProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2RNA, Small InterferingBcl-2 siRNACo-deliveryCurcuminHeLa cancer cellsNanoparticlesPAMAM dendrimer

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PMID31911391
PMCPMC7071519
OpenAlexW2997997569

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