Issue 5, 2020

Penetration of the blood–brain barrier and the anti-tumour effect of a novel PLGA-lysoGM1/DOX micelle drug delivery system

Abstract

Effective treatment of glioma and other central nervous system (CNS) diseases is hindered by the presence of the blood–brain barrier (BBB). A novel nano-delivery vehicle system composed of PLGA-lysoGM1/DOX micelles was developed to cross the BBB for CNS treatment. We have shown that doxorubicin (DOX) as a model drug encapsulated in PLGA-lysoGM1 micelles can achieve up to 3.8% loading efficiency and 61.6% encapsulation efficiency by the orthogonal test design. Our in vitro experiments demonstrated that PLGA-lysoGM1/DOX micelles had a slow and sustainable drug release under physiological conditions and exhibited a high cellular uptake through the macropinocytosis and the autophagy/lysosomal pathways. In vivo experimental studies in zebrafish and mice confirmed that PLGA-lysoGM1/DOX micelles could cross the BBB and be specifically accumulated in the brain. Moreover, an excellent anti-glioma effect was observed in intracranial glioma-bearing rats. Therefore, PLGA-lysoGM1/DOX micelles not only effectively can cross the BBB, but our results also suggest that they have great potential for anti-glioma therapy and other central nervous system diseases.

Graphical abstract: Penetration of the blood–brain barrier and the anti-tumour effect of a novel PLGA-lysoGM1/DOX micelle drug delivery system

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Oct 2019
Accepted
23 Dec 2019
First published
07 Jan 2020

Nanoscale, 2020,12, 2946-2960

Penetration of the blood–brain barrier and the anti-tumour effect of a novel PLGA-lysoGM1/DOX micelle drug delivery system

Y. Yin, J. Wang, M. Yang, R. Du, G. Pontrelli, S. McGinty, G. Wang, T. Yin and Y. Wang, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 2946 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR08741A

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