Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticle-Based Combination of Niclosamide and Doxorubicin: Effect of Treatment Regimens on Breast Cancer Subtypes.

Overexpressed Wnt/β-catenin signaling acts as a major cancer driver and plays an important role in the development of resistance against cancer chemotherapy. Therefore, the combinatorial approach of downregulating Wnt/β-catenin signaling along with using a chemotherapeutic agent may improve cancer therapy. However, systemic administration of free anticancer agents is nonspecific and poses serious side effects.

Carboxylated chitosan-mediated improved efficacy of mesoporous silica nanoparticle-based targeted drug delivery system for breast cancer therapy.

Nanoparticle-based targeting of overexpressed cell-surface receptors is a promising strategy that provides precise delivery of drugs to cancer cells. In the present study, we developed highly reproducible and monodispersed, chitosan-coated (pH-responsive), doxorubicin-loaded, aptamer-mesoporous silica nanoparticle (MSN) bioconjugates for actively targeting breast cancer cells harboring overexpression of EGF receptors (EGFR/HER2). The developed targeted MSNs demonstrated higher uptake and cytotoxicity of triple negative and HER2 positive breast cancer cells when compared to non-targeted MSNs.

A Synergistic Combination of Niclosamide and Doxorubicin as an Efficacious Therapy for All Clinical Subtypes of Breast Cancer.

Drug resistance is one of the major hurdles in the success of cancer chemotherapy. Notably, aberrantly expressed Wnt/β-catenin signaling plays a major role in the initiation and maintenance of oncogenesis along with development of chemoresistance. Therefore, the combinatorial approach of targeting Wnt/β-catenin pathway along with using a chemotherapeutic agent seems to be a promising strategy to improve cancer therapy.

Exploring the active constituents of in intervention of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) based on molecular docking method.

Unlabelled: The severe acute respiratory syndrome COVID-19 declared a global pandemic by WHO has become the present wellbeing worry to the whole world. There is an emergent need to search for possible medications. We report in this study a molecular docking study of eighteen molecules with the main protease (M) responsible for the replication of SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Role of Physicochemical Properties of Protein in Modulating the Nanoparticle-Bio Interface.

Nanoparticles, on exposure to the biological milieu, tend to interact with macromolecules to form a biomolecular corona. The biomolecular corona confers a unique biological identity to nanoparticles, and its protein composition plays a deterministic role in the biological fate of nanoparticles. The physiological behavior of proteins stems from their physicochemical properties, including surface charge, hydrophobicity, and structural stability.