Barium Titanate Nanoparticles: Highly Cytocompatible Dispersions in Glycol-chitosan and Doxorubicin Complexes for Cancer Therapy |
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| Authors: | Gianni Ciofani Serena Danti Delfo D’Alessandro Stefania Moscato Mario Petrini Arianna Menciassi |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Center of MicroBioRobotics c/o Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italian Institute of Technology, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera (Pisa), Italy;(2) CUCCS-RRMR, University of Pisa, via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy;(3) Department of Human Morphology and Applied Biology, University of Pisa, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy;(4) Department of Oncology and Transplants, University of Pisa, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy;(5) Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera (Pisa), Italy |
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| Abstract: | In the latest years, innovative nanomaterials have attracted a dramatic and exponentially increasing interest, in particular for their potential applications in the biomedical field. In this paper, we reported our findings on the cytocompatibility of barium titanate nanoparticles (BTNPs), an extremely interesting ceramic material. A rational and systematic study of BTNP cytocompatibility was performed, using a dispersion method based on a non-covalent binding to glycol-chitosan, which demonstrated the optimal cytocompatibility of this nanomaterial even at high concentration (100 μg/ml). Moreover, we showed that the efficiency of doxorubicin, a widely used chemotherapy drug, is highly enhanced following the complexation with BTNPs. Our results suggest that innovative ceramic nanomaterials such as BTNPs can be realistically exploited as alternative cellular nanovectors. |
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| Keywords: | Barium titanate nanoparticles Glycol-chitosan Doxorubicin Neuroblastoma Cancer therapy |
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