Abstract
The goal of nanomedicine is to seek strategies that are more efficient to address various limitations and challenges faced by conventional medicines, including lack of target specificity, poor bioavailability, premature degradability, and undesired side effects. Self-assembling drug amphiphiles represent a prospective nanomedicine for cancer therapy owing to their favorable route of administration and therapeutic efficiency compared with pristine drug counterparts. In this work, we report a class of self-deliverable prodrug amphiphiles consisting of the hydrophilic drug methotrexate (MTX) and the hydrophobic anticancer drugs camptothecin (CPT) and doxorubicin (DOX) for targeted and combinational chemotherapy. The disulfide bond and hydrazone bond, which are subject to stimuli-triggered bond cleavage, were introduced to link these therapeutic agents and form two prodrug amphiphiles, named as MTX-CPT and MTX-DOX, respectively, which could self-assemble into stable prodrug nanoaggregates (NAs) in aqueous media. MTX molecules in the prodrug NAs facilitated NA uptake into tumor cells with high expression of folic acid receptors (FRs). This systemic study provided clear evidence of the synergistic therapeutic effect by co-administrat...Continue Reading
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