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Porous hollow palladium nanoplatform for imaging-guided trimodal chemo-, photothermal-, and radiotherapy

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Cancer is one of the major causes of human death. There are many types of cancer treatment including surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and photothermal therapy. Combining different therapies can synergistically enhance the therapeutic effect. We developed porous hollow palladium nanoparticles (PHPdNPs) to co-deliver 131I (a radioisotope that is commonly used in radiotherapy) and doxorubicin (DOX; a chemotherapy drug). Compared with other mesoporous nanocarriers, our PHPdNPs exhibited impressive photothermal conversion efficiency and stability. Drug loading is high and drug release is controllable by repeated laser irradiation and acidic pH in tumor microenvironments. Owing to the specific interaction between palladium and iodine, the PHPdNPs serve as effective 131I delivery vehicles with excellent radiochemical stability. A single dose of [131I]PHPdNPs-DOX has superior antitumor efficacy because it enables a combination of chemo-, photothermal-, and radio-therapy. Moreover, the nanocomplex has no obvious side-effects in mice. Therefore, we believe that PHPdNPs are excellent candidates for multimodal imaging-guided therapy.

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This research was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFA0203600), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 81571743, 51502251, and 81571707), Fundamental Research Funds for Xiamen University (No. 20720160067) and Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (Nos. 2015J01519 and 2014Y2004).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics & Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China

    Menglin Song, Nian Liu, Gang Liu & Xiaolian Sun

  2. Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China

    Xiaolian Sun

  3. Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China

    Le He

  4. Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Anti-Cancer Drug Research, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China

    Daishun Ling

  5. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361004, China

    Xinhui Su

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Song, M., Liu, N., He, L. et al. Porous hollow palladium nanoplatform for imaging-guided trimodal chemo-, photothermal-, and radiotherapy. Nano Res. 11, 2796–2808 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1910-y

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