Intratumoral injection of biocompatible gels is increasingly used for the sustained delivery of drugs and vaccines to enhance the anti-cancer immune response. Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) has become an attractive adjuvant thanks to its ability to boost the antitumor immune response by inducing proliferation, maturation and migration of the dendritic-cells (DCs) and the differentiation of lymphocytes. Killed Mycobacteria, such as Heat-killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis (HKMT) have been used in several studies as TLR-2 agonist to increase maturation of DCs. In this study, we designed a mucoadhesive thermosensitive formulation for the local delivery of GM-CSF and HKMT in order to enhance DCs activation and improve the local antitumor immune response. This formulation was selected based on its elastic and mucoadhesive properties obtained thanks to rheological studies. More importantly, intratumoral residence time of the labelled gel and protein were evidenced by means of MRI and non invasive in vivo optical imaging. Then, the efficacy of the combination of immunomodulators loaded thermogel was demonstated in vitro and in vivo. The selected thermogel exhibits rheological properties which confer a good elasticity and increased residence time of the immunostimulatory agents in the tumor, thus increasing the recruitment of DCs and T cytotoxic CD8 lymphocytes.
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