| Conventional chemotherapy suffers lack of multidrug resistance (MDR), lack of bioavailability, and selectivity. Nano‐sized drug delivery systems (DDS) are developing
aimed to solve several limitations of conventional DDS. These systems have been
offered for targeting tumor tissue owing to enhanced long circulation time, drug solubility, their retention effect, and improved permeability. As a result, the aim of this
project was the design and development of DDS for biomedical applications. For this
purpose, gold nanospheres (GNSs) covered by pH‐sensitive thiol‐ended triblock
copolymer [poly(methacrylic acid) ‐b‐poly(acrylamide) ‐b‐poly(ε‐caprolactone)‐SH;
PMAA‐b‐PAM‐b‐PCL‐SH] for delivery of anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX). The
chemical structures of triblock copolymer were investigated by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopies. 1H
NMR spectroscopy and gel permeation chromatography (GPC) were used for calculating the molecular weights of each part in the nanocarrier. The success of coating,
GNSs with triblock copolymer was considered by means of dynamic light scattering
(DLS), FTIR, ultraviolet‐visible (UV‐Vis), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
measurement. The pH‐responsive drug release ability, (DOX)‐loading capacity, biocompatibility, and in vitro cytotoxicity effects of the nanocarriers were also studied.
As a result, it is expected that the synthesized GNSs@polymer‐DOX considered as
a potential application in nanomedicine demand like smart drug delivery, imaging,
and chemo‐photothermal therapy. |