Major obstacles to the successful treatment of gliolastoma multiforme are mostly related to the acquired resistance to chemotherapy drugs and, after surgery, to the cancer recurrence in correspondence of residual microscopic foci. As innovative anticancer approach, low-intensity electric stimulation represents a physical treatment able to reduce multidrug resistance of cancer and to induce remarkable anti-proliferative effects by interfering with Ca2+ and K+ homeostasis and by affecting the organization of the mitotic spindles. However, to preserve healthy cells, it is utterly important to direct the electric stimuli only to malignant cells. In this work, we propose a nanotechnological approach based on ultrasound-sensitive piezoelectric nanoparticles to remotely deliver electric stimulations to glioblastoma cells. Barium titanate nanoparticles (BTNPs) have been functionalized with an antibody against the transferrin receptor (TfR) in order to obtain the dual targeting of blood-brain barrier and of glioblastoma cells. The remote ultrasound-mediated piezo-stimulation allowed to significantly reduce in vitro the proliferation of glioblastoma cells and, when combined with a sub-toxic concentration of temozolomide, induced an increased sensitivity to the chemotherapy treatment and remarkable anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effects.

Piezoelectric barium titanate nanostimulators for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme / Marino, A.; Almici, E.; Migliorin, S.; Tapeinos, C.; Battaglini, M.; Cappello, V.; Marchetti, M.; de Vito, G.; Cicchi, R.; Pavone, F. S.; Ciofani, G.. - In: JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE. - ISSN 0021-9797. - STAMPA. - 538:(2019), pp. 449-461. [10.1016/j.jcis.2018.12.014]

Piezoelectric barium titanate nanostimulators for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme

Almici E.;Ciofani G.
2019

Abstract

Major obstacles to the successful treatment of gliolastoma multiforme are mostly related to the acquired resistance to chemotherapy drugs and, after surgery, to the cancer recurrence in correspondence of residual microscopic foci. As innovative anticancer approach, low-intensity electric stimulation represents a physical treatment able to reduce multidrug resistance of cancer and to induce remarkable anti-proliferative effects by interfering with Ca2+ and K+ homeostasis and by affecting the organization of the mitotic spindles. However, to preserve healthy cells, it is utterly important to direct the electric stimuli only to malignant cells. In this work, we propose a nanotechnological approach based on ultrasound-sensitive piezoelectric nanoparticles to remotely deliver electric stimulations to glioblastoma cells. Barium titanate nanoparticles (BTNPs) have been functionalized with an antibody against the transferrin receptor (TfR) in order to obtain the dual targeting of blood-brain barrier and of glioblastoma cells. The remote ultrasound-mediated piezo-stimulation allowed to significantly reduce in vitro the proliferation of glioblastoma cells and, when combined with a sub-toxic concentration of temozolomide, induced an increased sensitivity to the chemotherapy treatment and remarkable anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effects.
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