Silica shell is considered to be a promising design that enhances nanocomposite stability, cellular internalization, and consequentially therapeutic impacts by overcoming their aggregation under physiological conditions. This study addressed synthesizing silica-layered iron oxide-based nanoparticles (SCINPs) with different shell thicknesses (1-SCINPs, 2-SCINPs, 3-SCINPs, and 4-SCINPs). Also, the impact of shell thickness on the nanoparticle's cellular internalization and the radio-sensitizing effect of prepared nano-formulations were assessed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiochem Biophys Res Commun
December 2022
Cancer radiotherapy is one of the most effective regimens of cancer treatments, but cancer cell radioresistance remains a concern. Radiosensitizers can selectively improve the efficacy of radiotherapy and reduce inherent damage. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the effect of silica-coated iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (SIONPs) as a radiosensitizer and compare their therapeutic effect with that of Iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles (IONPs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: Conventional radiotherapy is mainly restricted by the low radiation absorption efficiency of tumors tissues and the hypoxic tumor cells radio-resistance. In this paper, novel nano-radiosensitizers, magnetic nanoparticles core coated with silica, were successfully prepared to overcome these limitations.
Main Methods: The prepared nanoparticles have been characterized by transmission electron microscope (TEM), Dynamic light scattering (DLS), atomic force microscope (AFM) and vibration sample magnetometer (VSM).