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SUBMITTER: Curcio M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7169412 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Curcio Manuela M Cirillo Giuseppe G Tucci Paola P Farfalla Annafranca A Bevacqua Emilia E Vittorio Orazio O Iemma Francesca F Nicoletta Fiore Pasquale FP
Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) 20191225 1
With the aim to effectively deliver methotrexate (MTX) to breast cancer cells, we designed a nanocarrier system (DC) derived from the self-assembly of a dextran-curcumin conjugate prepared via enzyme chemistry with immobilized laccase acting as a solid biocatalyst. Nanoparticles consisted of homogeneously dispersed nanospheres with a mean diameter of 290 nm, as characterized by combined transmission electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering investigations. DC was able to control the MTX r ...[more]