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ABSTRACT: Purpose
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) has the potential to become a viable cancer treatment modality, but its clinical translation requires sufficient tumor boron delivery while minimizing nonspecific accumulation.Methods
Thermal sensitive liposomes (TSLs) were designed to have a stable drug payload at physiological temperatures but engineered to have high permeability under mild hyperthermia.Results
We found that TSLs improved the tumor-specific delivery of boronophenylalanine (BPA) and boronated 2-nitroimidazole derivative B-381 in D54 glioma cells. Uniquely, the 2-nitroimidazole moiety extended the tumor retention of boron content compared to BPA.Conclusion
This is the first study to show the delivery of boronated compounds using TSLs for BNCT, and these results will provide the basis of future clinical trials using TSLs for BNCT.
SUBMITTER: Luderer MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6927330 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Pharmaceutical research 20190807 10
<h4>Purpose</h4>Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) has the potential to become a viable cancer treatment modality, but its clinical translation requires sufficient tumor boron delivery while minimizing nonspecific accumulation.<h4>Methods</h4>Thermal sensitive liposomes (TSLs) were designed to have a stable drug payload at physiological temperatures but engineered to have high permeability under mild hyperthermia.<h4>Results</h4>We found that TSLs improved the tumor-specific delivery of borono ...[more]