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  • Title: Potential use of folate-appended methyl-β-cyclodextrin as an anticancer agent.
    Author: Onodera R, Motoyama K, Okamatsu A, Higashi T, Arima H.
    Journal: Sci Rep; 2013; 3():1104. PubMed ID: 23346361.
    Abstract:
    To obtain a tumor cell-selectivity of methyl-β-cyclodextrin (M-β-CyD), we newly synthesized folate-appended M-β-CyD (FA-M-β-CyD), and evaluated the potential of FA-M-β-CyD as a novel anticancer agent in vitro and in vivo. Potent antitumor activity and cellular association of FA-M-β-CyD were higher than those of M-β-CyD in KB cells, folate receptor (FR)-positive cells. FA-M-β-CyD drastically inhibited the tumor growth after intratumoral or intravenous injection to FR-positive Colon-26 cells-bearing mice. The antitumor activity of FA-M-β-CyD was comparable and superior to that of doxorubicin after both intratumoral and intravenous administrations, respectively, at the same dose, in the tumor-bearing mice. All of the tumor-bearing mice after an intravenous injection of FA-M-β-CyD survived for at least more than 140 days. Importantly, an intravenous administration of FA-M-β-CyD to tumor-bearing mice did not show any significant change in blood chemistry values. These results strongly suggest that FA-M-β-CyD has the potential as a novel anticancer agent.
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