title: Potentiating antilymphoma efficacy of chemotherapy using a liposome for integration of CD20 targeting, ultra-violet irradiation polymerizing, and controlled drug delivery.
abstract: Unlike most malignancies, chemotherapy but not surgery plays the most important role in treating non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Currently, liposomes have been widely used to encapsulate chemotherapeutic drugs in treating solid tumors. However, higher in vivo stability owns a much more important position for excellent antitumor efficacy in treating hematological malignancies. In this study, we finely fabricated a rituximab Fab fragment-decorated liposome based on 1,2-bis(10,12-tricosadiynoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DC8,9PC), which can form intermolecular cross-linking through the diacetylenic group by ultra-violet (UV) irradiation. Our experimental results demonstrated that after the UV irradiation, the liposomes exhibit better serum stability and slower drug release with a decreased mean diameter of approximately 285 nm. The cellular uptake of adriamycin (ADR) by this Fab-navigated liposome was about four times of free drugs. Cytotoxicity assays against CD20(+) lymphoma cells showed that the half maximal (50%) inhibitory concentration (IC50) of ADR-loaded immunoliposome was only one fourth of free ADR at the same condition. In vivo studies were evaluated in lymphoma-bearing SCID mice. With the high serum stability, finely regulated structure, active targeting strategy via antigen-antibody reaction and passive targeting strategy via enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect, our liposome exhibits durable and potent antitumor activities both in the disseminated and localized human NHL xeno-transplant models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Changhai Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Cong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Changhai Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China ; International Joint Cancer Institute, the Second Military Medical University, 800 Xiangyin Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Huafei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pediatric Research, Children's Hospital affiliated to Soochow University, 303 Jingde Road, Suzhou 215000, China.
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Changhai Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Weiwei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Changhai Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Changhai Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Zhanyi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yue
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Changhai Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Changhai Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Yuxiang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Changhai Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Diagnosis, Changhai Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Anmei
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Deng
keywords: Chemotherapy; Liposomes; Non-Hodgkin lymphoma; Rituximab; Serum stability; Ultra-violet irradiation polymerizing