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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Combining Dextran Conjugates with Stimuli-Responsive and Folate-Targeting Activity: A New Class of Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy.

Manuela Curcio, Alessandro Paolì, Giuseppe Cirillo, Sebastiano Di Pietro, Martina Forestiero, Francesca Giordano, Loredana Mauro, Diana Amantea, Valeria Di Bussolo, Fiore Pasquale Nicoletta and 1 more

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Manuela CurcioDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2026-0152
Alessandro PaolìDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.
Giuseppe CirilloDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9592-1333
Sebastiano Di PietroDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Via Bonanno Pisano 33, 56126 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3585-6573
Martina ForestieroDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.
Francesca GiordanoDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7621-1969
Loredana MauroDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.
Diana AmanteaDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.
Valeria Di BussoloDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Via Bonanno Pisano 33, 56126 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6126-9984
Fiore Pasquale NicolettaDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5961-1963
Francesca IemmaDepartment of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy.
University of Calabria · ITUniversity of Pisa · IT

Funding

MIUR Excellence Department Project funds (L.232/2016), awarded to the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Italy, L.232/2016PRA-Progetti di Ricerca di Ateneo" (Institutional Research Grants) PRA_2020-2021_58 "Agenti innovativi e nanosistemi per target molecolari nell'ambito dell'oncologia di precisione.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanoparticles with active-targeting and stimuli-responsive behavior are a promising class of engineered materials able to recognize the site of cancer disease, targeting the drug release and limiting side effects in the healthy organs. In this work, new dual pH/redox-responsive nanoparticles with affinity for folate receptors were prepared by the combination of two amphiphilic dextran (DEX) derivatives. DEXFA conjugate was obtained by covalent coupling of the polysaccharide with folic acid (FA), whereas DEXssPEGCOOH derived from a reductive amination step of DEX was followed by condensation with polyethylene glycol 600. After self-assembling, nanoparticles with a mean size of 50 nm, able to be destabilized in acidic pH and reducing media, were obtained. Doxorubicin was loaded during the self-assembling process, and the release experiments showed the ability of the proposed system to modulate the drug release in response to different pH and redox conditions. Finally, the viability and uptake experiments on healthy (MCF-10A) and metastatic cancer (MDA-MB-231) cells proved the potential applicability of the proposed system as a new drug vector in cancer therapy.

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cystaminedextran conjugatefolic acidPEG diacidpH/redox responsive nanoparticlestargeted release

Identifiers

PMID33922934
PMCPMC8145397
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