In clinical cancer research,it is quite promising to develop multimodal synergistic therapeutic strategies.Photodynamic and photothermal synergistic therapy is a very desirable multimodal therapy strategy.Herein,we re...In clinical cancer research,it is quite promising to develop multimodal synergistic therapeutic strategies.Photodynamic and photothermal synergistic therapy is a very desirable multimodal therapy strategy.Herein,we report a facile and simple method to construct a nanotherapeutic agent for photodynamic and photothermal therapy.This nanotherapeutic agent(ZnO@Ce6-PDA)is composed of a ZnO nanoparticle core,an interlayer of photosensitizer chlorin e6(Ce6)and an outer layer of polydopamine(PDA).Due to the existence of Ce6,the ZnO@Ce6-PDA can efficiently generate singlet oxygen(1O2)under 660 nm laser irradiation.Moreover,the ZnO@Ce6-PDA can serve as a photothermal agent,because of the excellent photothermal conversion efficiency of the PDA coating layer in the presence of 780 nm laser.Experiment results demonstrated that the designed nanotherapeutic agent had outstanding phototoxicity upon the combination of laser irradiation at 660 and 780 nm.Thus,our work proves that the ZnO@Ce6-PDA is a promising photodynamic/photothermal dual-modal nanotherapeutic agent for enhanced cancer therapy.展开更多
基金supported in part by the Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.21775036,21675046,21735002, 21521063 and 21874035)the Key Point Research and Invention Program of Hunan Province (No.2017DK2011)+1 种基金the Research Foundation of Education Bureau of Hunan Province (No.18B027)the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No.2018JJ2033)
文摘In clinical cancer research,it is quite promising to develop multimodal synergistic therapeutic strategies.Photodynamic and photothermal synergistic therapy is a very desirable multimodal therapy strategy.Herein,we report a facile and simple method to construct a nanotherapeutic agent for photodynamic and photothermal therapy.This nanotherapeutic agent(ZnO@Ce6-PDA)is composed of a ZnO nanoparticle core,an interlayer of photosensitizer chlorin e6(Ce6)and an outer layer of polydopamine(PDA).Due to the existence of Ce6,the ZnO@Ce6-PDA can efficiently generate singlet oxygen(1O2)under 660 nm laser irradiation.Moreover,the ZnO@Ce6-PDA can serve as a photothermal agent,because of the excellent photothermal conversion efficiency of the PDA coating layer in the presence of 780 nm laser.Experiment results demonstrated that the designed nanotherapeutic agent had outstanding phototoxicity upon the combination of laser irradiation at 660 and 780 nm.Thus,our work proves that the ZnO@Ce6-PDA is a promising photodynamic/photothermal dual-modal nanotherapeutic agent for enhanced cancer therapy.
