Bio-based Carbon dots Loaded with 5-Fu: A Multifunctional drug Delivery System

作者：Feng, Baijian; Li, Na; Bi, Yongguang^*; Kong, Fansheng; Wang, Zhong; Tan, Shaofan

来源：Journal of Fluorescence, 2023.

DOI：10.1007/s10895-023-03385-y

• Carbon dots
• Fu
• Drug release
• Anticancer
• Cell imaging

In the present work, a simple and efficient stirring method was used to successfully synthesize a novel multifunctional carbon dots-drug delivery system AMP-CDs@5-Fu in the form of intertwined filaments. The results showed that AMP-CDs@5-Fu had the highest final release in the medium mimicking the physiological environment of the human small intestine compared to that of 5-Fu and that the drug release behaviors followed a zero-grade drug release within the first 3 h. The results also showed that AMP-CDs@5-Fu could be used to reduce the toxicity of 5-Fu while significantly improving the anticancer ability. In vitro hemolysis and anticancer assays showed that AMP-CDs@5-Fu could significantly improve the anticancer ability while decreasing the toxicity of 5-Fu, and the hemolysis rate of AMP-CDs@5-Fu was significantly lower than that of 5-Fu; their IC50 against 4T1 cancer cells were 201.63 & PLUSMN; 8.94 & mu;g 5-Fu/mL and 241.24 & PLUSMN; 11.05 & mu;g 5- Fu/mL. In addition, AMP-CDs@5-Fu allowed clear cell imaging. Therefore, AMP-CDs@5-Fu is expected to improve the bioavailability of 5-Fu as a novel oral agent with fluorescent properties and very promising as a novel fluorescence tracking drug loading system, which is expected to be used in the field of anticancer targeted therapy and fluorescence tracking to monitor the distribution of drugs.

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