Abstract
Low accumulation of chemotherapeutic agent in tumor tissue and multidrug resistance (MDR) present a major obstacle to curing cancer treatment. Therefore, how to combine several therapeutics in one system is a key issue to overcome the problem. Here, we demonstrate epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) antibody-conjugated PEGylated nanographene oxide (PEG-NGO) to carry epirubicin (EPI) for tumor targeting and triple-therapeutics (growth signal blocking, chemotherapy, photothermal therapy) in tumor treatment. This synergistic targeted treatment simultaneously enhances the local drug concentration (6.3-fold) and performs the ultra-efficient tumor suppression to significantly prolong the mice survival (over the course of 50 days).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 7204-7214 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Biomaterials |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 29 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 09 2013 |
Keywords
- Chemotherapy
- EGFR
- Growth signal blocking
- Nanographene oxide
- Photothermal therapy
- Tumor targeting