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ArticleAdvanced functional materials2019

Janus Microcarriers for Magnetic Field-controlled Combination Chemotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Soojeong Cho, Nam Gi Min, Wooram Park, Shin-Hyun Kim, Dong-Hyun Kim

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Article in Advanced functional materials, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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5 authors.

Soojeong ChoDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Nam Gi MinDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.
Wooram ParkDepartment of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.
Shin-Hyun KimDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.
Dong-Hyun KimRobert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.

Funding

Catheter-Directed Image-Guided Delivery of Cytostatic and Cytotoxic Combination Therapy to Liver TumorsR01CA218659 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KIM, DONG-HYUN · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Image-Guided Transcatheter Delivery of Natural Killer Cell Therapy Augmented with IFN-Gamma Eluting MicrospheresR01EB026207 · NIBIB · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KIM, DONG-HYUN · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
Targeted Transcatheter Magneto-Mechanical Therapy for Hepatocellular CarcinomaR21CA173491 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KIM, DONG-HYUN · 2013 to 2014
$364k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA218659NCI NIH HHS R21 CA173491NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB026207
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combination chemotherapy administering multiple chemo-agents is widely exploited for the treatment of various cancers in the clinic. Specially for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), one of the most common malignancies, a co-administration of combinational cytostatic multi-kinase inhibitors and cytotoxic chemo-agents has been suggested as a potential curative approach. Here, Janus microcarriers were developed for the controlled local combination chemotherapy of HCC. The Janus microcarriers are composed of polycaprolactone (PCL) compartment and magnetic nanoparticles-loaded poly(lactide-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) compartment which contain hydrophobic regorafenib and hydrophilic doxorubicin, respectively. Exploiting the magnetic anisotropy, rotational motion of the Janus microcarriers is controlled with magnetic field, which enables the active co-release of dual chemo-agents. Furthermore, Janus microcarriers exhibit magnetic resonance (MR) contrast effect, supporting the successful transcatheter intra-arterial delivery of the combination chemo-agents loaded the microcarriers to the targeted tumor. This Janus microcarriers potentially serve as a general combinational chemo-therapeutic platform for the co-delivery of various combinations of multi-chemo-agents.

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cancer therapydrug releaseJanus microcarriersliver cancermagnetic response

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PMID38957778
PMCPMC11219019

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