Self-assembled polymeric nanocarrier-mediated co-delivery of metformin and doxorubicin for melanoma therapy.

ABSTRACT: Malignant melanoma is a life-threatening form of skin cancer with a low response rate to single-agent chemotherapy. Although combined therapies of metformin (MET) and doxorubicin (DOX) are effective in treating a variety of cancers, including breast cancer, their different physicochemical properties and administration routines reduce the effective co-accumulation of both drugs in tumors. Nanoparticles (NPs) have been demonstrated to potentially improve drug delivery efficiency in cancer therapy of, for example, liver and lung cancers. Hence, in this study, we prepared pH-sensitive, biocompatible, tumor-targeting NPs based on the conjugation of biomaterials, including sodium alginate, cholesterol, and folic acid (FCA). As expected, since cholesterol and folic acid are two essentials, but in

SUBMITTER: Song M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7996084 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature