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Tamoxifen Delivery System Based on PEGylated Magnetic MCM-41 Silica
| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Judith, Mihály Popova, Margarita Koseva, Neli Trendafilova, Ivalina Lazarova, Hristina Mitova, Violeta Momekova, Denitsa Momekov, Georgi Koleva, Iskra Aleksandrov, Hristiyan Vayssilov, Georgi Szegedi, Ágnes |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Magnetic iron oxide containing MCM-41 silica (MM) with ~300 nm particle size was developed. The MM material before or after template removal was modified with NH2- or COOH-groups and then grafted with PEG chains. The anticancer drug tamoxifen was loaded into the organic groups’ modified and PEGylated nanoparticles by an incipient wetness impregnation procedure. The amount of loaded drug and the release properties depend on whether modification of the nanoparticles was performed before or after the template removal step. The parent and drug-loaded samples were characterized by XRD, N2 physisorption, thermal gravimetric analysis, and ATR FT-IR spectroscopy. ATR FT-IR spectroscopic data and density functional theory (DFT) calculations supported the interaction between the mesoporous silica surface and tamoxifen molecules and pointed out that the drug molecule interacts more strongly with the silicate surface terminated by silanol groups than with the surface modified with carboxyl groups. A sustained tamoxifen release profile was obtained by an in vitro experiment at pH = 7.0 for the PEGylated formulation modified by COOH groups after the template removal. Free drug and formulated tamoxifen samples were further investigated for antiproliferative activity against MCF-7 cells. |
| Starting Page | 5129 |
| e-ISSN | 14203049 |
| DOI | 10.3390/molecules25215129 |
| Journal | Molecules |
| Issue Number | 21 |
| Volume Number | 25 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2020-11-04 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Molecules Pharmacology and Pharmacy Tamoxifen Mesoporous Magnetic Nanoparticles Pegylation Release Properties Dft Calculations |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
