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Novel tumor-targeted self-nanostructured and compartmentalized water-in-oil-in-water polyurethane-polyurea nanocapsules for cancer theragnosis
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Encapsulation of water-soluble bioactive compounds for enabling specific accumulation in tumor locations, while avoiding premature clearance and/or degradation in the bloodstream, is one of the main hallmarks in nanomedicine, especially that of NIR fluorescent probes for cancer theragnosis. The herein reported technology furnishes water-dispersible double-walled polyurethane-polyurea hybrid nanocapsules (NCs) loaded with indocyanine green (ICG-NCs), using a versatile and highly efficient one-pot and industrially scalable synthetic process based on the use of two different prepolymers to set up the NCs walls. Flow cytometry and confocal microscopy confirmed that both ICG-loaded NCs internalized in monocyte-derived dendritic cells (moDCs). The in vivo analysis of xenograft A375 mouse melanoma model revealed that amphoteric functionalization of NCs' surface promotes the selective accumulation of ICG-NCs in tumor tissues, making them promising agents for a less-invasive theragnosis of cancer.
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BONELLI BLASCO, Joaquin Daniel, et al. Novel tumor-targeted self-nanostructured and compartmentalized water-in-oil-in-water polyurethane-polyurea nanocapsules for cancer theragnosis. Pharmaceutics. 2022. Vol. 15, num. 1, pags. 58. ISSN 1999-4923. [consulted: 10 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/197404