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ArticleScientific reports2020

Release of a liver anticancer drug, sorafenib from its PVA/LDH- and PEG/LDH-coated iron oxide nanoparticles for drug delivery applications.

Mona Ebadi, Saifullah Bullo, Kalaivani Buskara, Mohd Zobir Hussein, Sharida Fakurazi, Giorgia Pastorin

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Mona EbadiMaterials Synthesis and Characterization Laboratory, Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Saifullah BulloDepartment of Linguistic and Human Sciences, Begum Nusrat Bhutto Women University, Sukkur, Sindh, 65200, Pakistan.
Kalaivani BuskaraLaboratory of Vaccine and Immunotherapeutics, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Mohd Zobir HusseinMaterials Synthesis and Characterization Laboratory, Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia. mzobir@upm.edu.my.
Sharida FakuraziDepartment of Human Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Giorgia PastorinDepartment of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Universiti Putra Malaysia · MYNational University of Singapore · SGShaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of nanocarriers composed of polyethylene glycol- and polyvinyl alcohol-coated vesicles encapsulating active molecules in place of conventional chemotherapy drugs can reduce many of the chemotherapy-associated challenges because of the increased drug concentration at the diseased area in the body. The present study investigated the structure and magnetic properties of iron oxide nanoparticles in the presence of polyvinyl alcohol and polyethylene glycol as the basic surface coating agents. We used superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (FNPs) as the core and studied their effectiveness when two polymers, namely polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polyethylene glycol (PEG), were used as the coating agents together with magnesium-aluminum-layered double hydroxide (MLDH) as the nanocarrier. In addition, the anticancer drug sorafenib (SO), was loaded on MLDH and coated onto the surface of the nanoparticles, to best exploit this nano-drug delivery system for biomedical applications. Samples were prepared by the co-precipitation method, and the resulting formation of the nanoparticles was confirmed by X-ray, FTIR, TEM, SEM, DLS, HPLC, UV-Vis, TGA and VSM. The X-ray diffraction results indicated that all the as-synthesized samples contained highly crystalline and pure Fe

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3T3 CellsAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsDrug Delivery SystemsDrug LiberationHep G2 CellsHumansLiverLiver NeoplasmsMagnetic Iron Oxide NanoparticlesMagneticsMagnetite NanoparticlesMicePolyethylene GlycolsPolyvinyl AlcoholSorafenibAntineoplastic AgentsMagnetite NanoparticlesPolyethylene GlycolsPolyvinyl AlcoholSorafenib

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PMID33298980
PMCPMC7725814
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