Efficient human breast cancer xenograft regression after a single treatment with a novel liposomal formulation of epirubicin prepared using the EDTA ion gradient method.

Liposomes act as efficient drug carriers. Recently, epirubicin (EPI) formulation was developed using a novel EDTA ion gradient method for drug encapsulation. This formulation displayed very good stability and drug retention in vitro in a two-year long-term stability experiment. The cryo-TEM images s...

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Autores principales: Jerzy Gubernator, Dominik Lipka, Mariola Korycińska, Katarzyna Kempińska, Magdalena Milczarek, Joanna Wietrzyk, Rafał Hrynyk, Sabine Barnert, Regine Süss, Arkadiusz Kozubek
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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Sumario:Liposomes act as efficient drug carriers. Recently, epirubicin (EPI) formulation was developed using a novel EDTA ion gradient method for drug encapsulation. This formulation displayed very good stability and drug retention in vitro in a two-year long-term stability experiment. The cryo-TEM images show drug precipitate structures different than ones formed with ammonium sulfate method, which is usually used to encapsulate anthracyclines. Its pharmacokinetic properties and its efficacy in the human breast MDA-MB-231 cancer xenograft model were also determined. The liposomal EPI formulation is eliminated slowly with an AUC of 7.6487, while the free drug has an AUC of only 0.0097. The formulation also had a much higher overall antitumor efficacy than the free drug.