PMID- 34742449 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220211 LR - 20220211 IS - 1879-1344 (Electronic) IS - 0144-8617 (Linking) VI - 275 DP - 2022 Jan 1 TI - Chitosan-based DDSs for pH/hypoxia dual-triggered DOX delivery: Facile morphology modulation for higher in vitro cytotoxicity. PG - 118760 LID - S0144-8617(21)01147-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118760 [doi] AB - The morphology of the drug delivery systems (DDSs) has been recognized to play an important role in their phagocytosis, cellular interaction and distribution. However, it is a technical challenge to simply prepare the non-spherical nanoscaled DDSs. Here, a facile strategy was developed to fabricate the pH/hypoxia dual-responsive nanowires by adding the maleic acid (MAH) and PEG modified chitosan (PEG-SS-CS-MAH) into aqueous solution of DOX. Compared with the PEG-SS-CS-MAH/DOX nanoparticles (NPs) by adding DOX into the PEG-SS-CS-MAH solution, the PEG-SS-CS-MAH/DOX nanowires (NWs) possessed a higher drug loading capacity of 58% and better pH/hypoxia dual-triggered DOX release performance with higher drug release in the simulated tumor intracellular microenvironment but a much lower premature drug leakage in the simulated normal physiological medium. As a result, higher in vitro anti-tumor efficacy was achieved with the PEG-SS-CS-MAH/DOX NWs, demonstrating their promising potential for tumor chemotherapy. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Xie, Pengwei AU - Xie P AD - State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. FAU - Liu, Peng AU - Liu P AD - State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. Electronic address: pliu@lzu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20211016 PL - England TA - Carbohydr Polym JT - Carbohydrate polymers JID - 8307156 RN - 0 (Antibiotics, Antineoplastic) RN - 0 (Drug Carriers) RN - 80168379AG (Doxorubicin) RN - 9012-76-4 (Chitosan) SB - IM MH - Antibiotics, Antineoplastic/administration & dosage/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - Cell Hypoxia/*drug effects MH - Cell Proliferation/drug effects MH - Cell Survival/drug effects MH - Chitosan/administration & dosage/*chemistry MH - Doxorubicin/administration & dosage/chemistry/*pharmacology MH - Drug Carriers/administration & dosage/chemistry MH - *Drug Delivery Systems MH - Drug Liberation MH - Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor MH - Flow Cytometry MH - Hep G2 Cells MH - Humans MH - Hydrogen-Ion Concentration MH - Molecular Structure MH - Nanoparticles/chemistry MH - Particle Size OTO - NOTNLM OT - Chitosan OT - Drug delivery system OT - Morphology OT - Nanowires OT - Tumor chemotherapy EDAT- 2021/11/08 06:00 MHDA- 2022/02/12 06:00 CRDT- 2021/11/07 20:24 PHST- 2021/08/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/09/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/10/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/11/07 20:24 [entrez] PHST- 2021/11/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/02/12 06:00 [medline] AID - S0144-8617(21)01147-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118760 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Carbohydr Polym. 2022 Jan 1;275:118760. doi: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118760. Epub 2021 Oct 16.