Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2024,15, 180–189, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.17
alcohol)-based nanoparticles (NPs) using the single emulsion technique. Then the NPs were coated with F127 and F127-folate by simple incubation for five days. The nanoparticles have the hydrodynamic size of approx. 250 nm with negative charge. Similar to chlorambucil and IR780, iron oxide loadings were
observed for all three kinds of NPs. The release of chlorambucil was quicker at pH 5.4 than at pH 7.4 at 37 °C. The F127@NPs and F127-folate@NPs demonstrated much greater cell uptake and toxicity up to 72 h after incubation. Our in vitro results of F127@NPs and F127-folate@NPs have demonstrated the ability
of these systems to serve as medication and imaging agent carriers for cancer treatment and diagnostics, respectively.
Keywords: cancer; chlorambucil; F127-folate; IR780; iron oxide nanoparticles; PLGA; theragnostics; Introduction
Theragnostic nanoparticles (NPs) are a diagnostic and therapeutic
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Figure 1:
(A) DLS results for the NPs. (B) SEM images of F127-folate@NP at 15k× and 30k× magnifications.