In vivo assembly drug delivery strategy based on ultra-small nanoparticles: Toward high drug permeation and accumulation for CNV treatment

Jingwen Yu, Yiming Wu, Qixuan Dai, Han Wu, Jintao Pan, Yuli Guo, Ke Yan, Huimin Zhu, Yi Mao, Sijie Lin, Wei Li*, Gang Liu*, Chengchao Chu*

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Abstract

Corneal neovascularization (CNV) is one of the common blinding factors worldwide and how to treat CNV effectively is a knotty problem in clinical practice. Although, photothermal therapy (PTT) has been widely investigated in CNV management, it is still limited by the effective delivery of photothermal agents. Hereby, we proposed and validated an in vivo assembly drug delivery strategy, which composed of vascular targeting molecule (RGD-Bis(DPA-Zn), DRUG-1) and ultra-small nanoparticles (AuPt-ICG, DRUG-2). DRUG-2, with PTT and photoacoustic imaging (PAI) properties, could be co-assembled with DRUG-1 to form larger DRUG-1@2 nanocluster, accompanied by performance gains. To treat CNV, DRUG-1 was topically administrated via eye drops; and trapped at the target by the in situ co-assembled with DRUG-1, during which the dual-PAI system was applied to trace drug enrichment; finally, a safe NIR irradiation strategy was implemented to realize efficient CNV elimination. Moreover, the DRUG-1/2 -combined treatment demonstrated better biosecurity and broke new ground for CNV theranostics.
Original languageEnglish
Article number137968
Number of pages9
JournalChemical Engineering Journal
Volume450
Early online date8 Jul 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2022

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgements:
J. Yu, Y. Wu and Q. Dai contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFA0107301 and 2018YFA0107304), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (81770894, 81470602, 81901876, 81925019, 81801817, and U1705281), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (20720190088 and 20720200019), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, China (NCET-13-0502), the Medical and Health Key Project of Xiamen (No. 3502Z20191106), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2114050002159), and the Intramural Research Program, Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (JCYJ20210324121801004), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health. All animal experiments were approved by the Animal Management and Ethics Committee of Xiamen University.

Keywords

  • Corneal neovascularization
  • Photothermal therapy
  • In vivo assembly
  • Biosecurity

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