The formulation and delivery of curcumin with solid lipid nanoparticles for the treatment of on non-small cell lung cancer both in vitro and in vivo.
Curcumin was determined to have anticancer potency on several kinds of carcinoma. However, its medical application was limited because of its poor bioavailability, unsatisfying dispersity and rapid metabolism in vivo. In this study, curcumin was delivered by solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) for lung cancer treatment. The physiochemical characters of SLN-curcumin were detected by HPLC, TEM, Zeta potential analysis and FTIR, and the anticancer efficiency on lung cancer was determined both in vitro and in vivo. SLN-curcumin was synthesized by sol-gel method with the size ranged from 20 to 80 nm. After being loaded in SLN, the IC50 of SLN-curcumin on A549 cells was 4 μM, only 1/20 of plain drug. The plasmid concentration of curcumin was highly increased in mice via i.p. after loaded with SLN. Furthermore, SLN-curcumin enhanced the targeting of curcumin to lung and tumor, which finally increased the inhibition efficiency of curcumin from 19.5% to 69.3%. The Flow Cytometry (FCM) analysis and immuno staining confirmed that the inhibition effect mostly came from apoptosis, but not necrosis. The tumor targeting and profound tumor inhibition effect of SLN-curcumin indicated its medical application on lung cancer treatment, and also provided a novel method for new anticancer agents' development.
['Wang|Ping|P|', 'Zhang|Libin|L|', 'Peng|Hao|H|', 'Li|Yongwu|Y|', 'Xiong|Jian|J|', 'Xu|Zheyuan|Z|']
D000818:Animals D000970:Antineoplastic Agents D017209:Apoptosis D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung D045744:Cell Line, Tumor D003474:Curcumin D004337:Drug Carriers D005260:Female D006801:Humans D007150:Immunohistochemistry D019394:Ki-67 Antigen D008055:Lipids D008175:Lung Neoplasms D051379:Mice D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C D008819:Mice, Nude D053758:Nanoparticles D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous
Lung cancer SLN-curcumin A549 Tumor inhibition TUNEL