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Svenskaya Y, Pallaeva T. Exploiting Benefits of Vaterite Metastability to Design Degradable Systems for Biomedical Applications. Pharmaceutics 2023; 15:2574. [PMID: 38004553 PMCID: PMC10674703 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15112574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Revised: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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The widespread application of calcium carbonate is determined by its high availability in nature and simplicity of synthesis in laboratory conditions. Moreover, calcium carbonate possesses highly attractive physicochemical properties that make it suitable for a wide range of biomedical applications. This review provides a conclusive analysis of the results on using the tunable vaterite metastability in the development of biodegradable drug delivery systems and therapeutic vehicles with a controlled and sustained release of the incorporated cargo. This manuscript highlights the nuances of vaterite recrystallization to non-porous calcite, dissolution at acidic pH, biodegradation at in vivo conditions and control over these processes. This review outlines the main benefits of vaterite instability for the controlled liberation of the encapsulated molecules for the development of biodegradable natural and synthetic polymeric materials for biomedical purposes.
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- Yulia Svenskaya
- Scientific Medical Center, Saratov State University, 410012 Saratov, Russia
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Marmo VLM, Ambrósio JAR, Gonçalves EP, Raniero LJ, Beltrame Junior M, Pinto JG, Ferreira-Strixino J, Simioni AR. Vaterite microparticle-loaded methylene blue for photodynamic activity in macrophages infected with Leishmania braziliensis. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2023; 22:1977-1989. [PMID: 37115408 DOI: 10.1007/s43630-023-00426-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) exhibits a variety of crystalline phases, including the anhydrous crystalline polymorphs calcite, aragonite, and vaterite. Developing porous calcium carbonate microparticles in the vaterite phase for the encapsulation of methylene blue (MB) as a photosensitizer (PS) for use in photodynamic therapy (PDT) was the goal of this investigation. Using an adsorption approach, the PS was integrated into the CaCO3 microparticles. The vaterite microparticles were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and steady-state techniques. The trypan blue exclusion method was used to measure the biological activity of macrophages infected with Leishmania braziliensis in vitro. The vaterite microparticles produced are highly porous, non-aggregated, and uniform in size. After encapsulation, the MB-loaded microparticles kept their photophysical characteristics. The carriers that were captured allowed for dye localization inside the cells. The results obtained in this study indicated that the MB-loaded vaterite microparticles show promising photodynamic activity in macrophages infected with Leishmania braziliensis.
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- Vitor Luca Moura Marmo
- Research and Development Institute-IPD, Vale do Paraíba University-UNIVAP, Av. Shishima Hifumi, 2911, São José Dos Campos, SP, CEP 12244-000, Brazil
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- Research and Development Institute-IPD, Vale do Paraíba University-UNIVAP, Av. Shishima Hifumi, 2911, São José Dos Campos, SP, CEP 12244-000, Brazil
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- Research and Development Institute-IPD, Vale do Paraíba University-UNIVAP, Av. Shishima Hifumi, 2911, São José Dos Campos, SP, CEP 12244-000, Brazil
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- Research and Development Institute-IPD, Vale do Paraíba University-UNIVAP, Av. Shishima Hifumi, 2911, São José Dos Campos, SP, CEP 12244-000, Brazil
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- Research and Development Institute-IPD, Vale do Paraíba University-UNIVAP, Av. Shishima Hifumi, 2911, São José Dos Campos, SP, CEP 12244-000, Brazil
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- Research and Development Institute-IPD, Vale do Paraíba University-UNIVAP, Av. Shishima Hifumi, 2911, São José Dos Campos, SP, CEP 12244-000, Brazil
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- Research and Development Institute-IPD, Vale do Paraíba University-UNIVAP, Av. Shishima Hifumi, 2911, São José Dos Campos, SP, CEP 12244-000, Brazil
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- Research and Development Institute-IPD, Vale do Paraíba University-UNIVAP, Av. Shishima Hifumi, 2911, São José Dos Campos, SP, CEP 12244-000, Brazil.
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New Carbonate-Based Materials and Study of Cytotoxic Capacity in Cancer Cells. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24065546. [PMID: 36982616 PMCID: PMC10055759 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24065546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Revised: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023] Open
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Calcium carbonate, one of the most commonly found biominerals produced by organisms, has shown great potential for the development of systems with biological applications due to its excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability, and simple chemical composition. Here, we focus on the synthesis of various carbonate-based materials with vaterite phase control and their subsequent functionalization for applications in treating glioblastoma, one of the most limiting tumors currently without effective treatments. The incorporation of l-cysteine into the systems increased cell selectivity while the incorporation of manganese supplied the materials with cytotoxic capacity. Extensive characterization of the systems by infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, and transmission electron microscopy confirmed the incorporation of the different fragments causing selectivity and cytotoxicity to the systems. To verify their therapeutic activity, the vaterite-based materials were tested in the CT2A cell line (murine glioma) and compared to SKBR3 (breast cancer) and HEK-293T (human kidney) cell lines. These studies on the cytotoxicity of the materials have shown promising results that can encourage future in vivo studies in glioblastoma models.
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Kalenichenko D, Nifontova G, Karaulov A, Sukhanova A, Nabiev I. Designing Functionalized Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules for Cancer Treatment. NANOMATERIALS 2021; 11:nano11113055. [PMID: 34835819 PMCID: PMC8620290 DOI: 10.3390/nano11113055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Revised: 11/06/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The engineering of delivery systems for drugs and contrasting labels ensuring the simultaneous imaging and treatment of malignant tumors is an important hurdle in developing new tools for cancer therapy and diagnosis. Polyelectrolyte microcapsules (MCs), formed by nanosized interpolymer complexes, represent a promising platform for the designing of multipurpose agents, functionalized with various components, including high- and low-molecular-weight substances, metal nanoparticles, and organic fluorescent dyes. Here, we have developed size-homogenous MCs with different structures (core/shell and shell types) and microbeads containing doxorubicin (DOX) as a model anticancer drug, and fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots, QDs) as fluorescent nanolabels. In this study, we suggest approaches to the encapsulation of DOX at different stages of the MC synthesis and describe the optimal conditions for the optical encoding of MCs with water-soluble QDs. The results of primary characterization of the designed microcarriers, including particle analysis, the efficacy of DOX and QDs encapsulation, and the drug release kinetics are reported. The polyelectrolyte MCs developed here ensure a modified (prolonged) release of DOX, under conditions close to normal and tumor tissues; they possess a bright fluorescence that paves the way to their exploitation for the delivery of antitumor drugs and fluorescence imaging.
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- Daria Kalenichenko
- Laboratoire de Recherche en Nanosciences, LRN-EA4682, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51100 Reims, France; (D.K.); (G.N.)
- Laboratory of Nano-Bioengineering, Institute for Physics and Engineering in Biomedicine (PhysBio), National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), 115409 Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Nanosciences, LRN-EA4682, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51100 Reims, France; (D.K.); (G.N.)
- Laboratory of Nano-Bioengineering, Institute for Physics and Engineering in Biomedicine (PhysBio), National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), 115409 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), 119146 Moscow, Russia;
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Nanosciences, LRN-EA4682, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51100 Reims, France; (D.K.); (G.N.)
- Correspondence: (A.S.); (I.N.)
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Nanosciences, LRN-EA4682, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51100 Reims, France; (D.K.); (G.N.)
- Laboratory of Nano-Bioengineering, Institute for Physics and Engineering in Biomedicine (PhysBio), National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), 115409 Moscow, Russia
- Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), 119146 Moscow, Russia;
- Correspondence: (A.S.); (I.N.)
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Sovova S, Abalymov A, Pekar M, Skirtach AG, Parakhonskiy B. Calcium carbonate particles: synthesis, temperature and time influence on the size, shape, phase, and their impact on cell hydroxyapatite formation. J Mater Chem B 2021; 9:8308-8320. [PMID: 34518864 DOI: 10.1039/d1tb01072g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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To develop materials for drug delivery and tissue engineering and to study their efficiency with respect to ossification, it is necessary to apply physicochemical and biological analyses. The major challenge is labor-intensive data mining during synthesis and the reproducibility of the obtained data. In this work, we investigated the influence of time and temperature on the reaction yield, the reaction rate, and the size, shape, and phase of the obtained product in the completely controllable synthesis of calcium carbonate. We show that calcium carbonate particles can be synthesized in large quantities, i.e., in gram quantities, which is a substantial advantage over previously reported synthesis methods. We demonstrated that the presence of vaterite particles can dramatically stimulate hydroxyapatite (HA) production by providing the continued release of the main HA component - calcium ions - depending on the following particle parameters: size, shape, and phase. To understand the key parameters influencing the efficiency of HA production by cells, we created a predictive model by means of principal component analysis. We found that smaller particles in the vaterite state are best suited for HA growth (HA growth was 8 times greater than that in the control). We also found that the reported dependence of cell adhesion on colloidal particles can be extended to other types of particles that contain calcium ions.
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- Sarka Sovova
- Institute of Physical and Applied Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Science Medical Center, Saratov State University, Saratov 410012, Russian Federation.,Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 121205 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Physical and Applied Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
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- NanoBioTechnology laboratory. Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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- NanoBioTechnology laboratory. Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
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