Anti-Tumour Effect of a Chitosan Delivery System for Doxorubicin

Used against a variety of tumours, doxorubicin (DOX), causes multiple side-effects in patients, especially in high doses required to control tumour growth. A drug delivery system (DDS) was developed to deliver DOX. Through DOX encapsulation into chitosan DDS, novel DOX microparticles (DMPs) were for...

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Main Authors: Tan, M., Choong, P., Dass, Crispin
Format: Journal Article
Published: Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26348
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Choong, P.
Dass, Crispin
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description Used against a variety of tumours, doxorubicin (DOX), causes multiple side-effects in patients, especially in high doses required to control tumour growth. A drug delivery system (DDS) was developed to deliver DOX. Through DOX encapsulation into chitosan DDS, novel DOX microparticles (DMPs) were formed. Multiple optimisation steps produced DMPs which caused tumour cell death. Treatment of mice bearing tumours with DMP decreased tumour growth and spread, with no visible side-effects. There are plans to evaluate this delivery vehicle more closely towards clinical development and testing.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-263482017-09-13T15:26:48Z Anti-Tumour Effect of a Chitosan Delivery System for Doxorubicin Tan, M. Choong, P. Dass, Crispin Used against a variety of tumours, doxorubicin (DOX), causes multiple side-effects in patients, especially in high doses required to control tumour growth. A drug delivery system (DDS) was developed to deliver DOX. Through DOX encapsulation into chitosan DDS, novel DOX microparticles (DMPs) were formed. Multiple optimisation steps produced DMPs which caused tumour cell death. Treatment of mice bearing tumours with DMP decreased tumour growth and spread, with no visible side-effects. There are plans to evaluate this delivery vehicle more closely towards clinical development and testing. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26348 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.93-94.703 Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland restricted
spellingShingle Tan, M.
Choong, P.
Dass, Crispin
Anti-Tumour Effect of a Chitosan Delivery System for Doxorubicin
title Anti-Tumour Effect of a Chitosan Delivery System for Doxorubicin
title_full Anti-Tumour Effect of a Chitosan Delivery System for Doxorubicin
title_fullStr Anti-Tumour Effect of a Chitosan Delivery System for Doxorubicin
title_full_unstemmed Anti-Tumour Effect of a Chitosan Delivery System for Doxorubicin
title_short Anti-Tumour Effect of a Chitosan Delivery System for Doxorubicin
title_sort anti-tumour effect of a chitosan delivery system for doxorubicin
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26348