Enhanced local cancer therapy using a CA4P and CDDP co-loaded polypeptide gel depot

Shuangjiang Yu; Shu Wei; Liang Liu; Desheng Qi; Jiayu Wang; Guojun Chen; Wanying He; Chaoliang He; Xuesi Chen; Zhen Gu

doi:10.1039/C8BM01442F

Enhanced local cancer therapy using a CA4P and CDDP co-loaded polypeptide gel depot†

Shuangjiang Yu,

^ad Shu Wei,^b Liang Liu,^a Desheng Qi,^ab Jiayu Wang,^ab Guojun Chen,^c Wanying He,^a Chaoliang He,

*^a Xuesi Chen

^a and Zhen Gu

*^cd

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^a Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
E-mail: clhe@ciac.ac.cn

^b School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, P. R. China

^c Department of Bioengineering, California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI), Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Center for Minimally Invasive Therapeutics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 90095, USA
E-mail: guzhen@ucla.edu

^d Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA

Abstract

Cancer combination therapy based on drug co-delivery systems provides an effective strategy for enhancing treatment efficacy and reducing side effects. In this work, a new strategy through co-delivery of combretastatin A4 disodium phosphate (CA4P) and cisplatin (CDDP) was developed for the local treatment of colon cancer, through an in situ thermo-gelling hydrogel (mPEG-b-PELG). The results indicated that this material possessed concentration-dependent thermogelling properties and tunable in vivo biodegradability. Also, the drug loaded gel could regulate the in vitro drug release behaviors of both CDDP and CA4P, which promoted the in vivo vessel disrupting effects of CA4P compared with a free drug after local treatment for 48 h. Although the drug co-loaded gel induced less in vitro cell death compared with the free drug co-treated group, this drug co-loaded gel depot showed the highest antitumor efficacy compared with the other experimental groups after peritumoral injection toward C26 tumor bearing mice.

This article is part of the themed collection: Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigators

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Enhanced local cancer therapy using a CA4P and CDDP co-loaded polypeptide gel depot†

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