Abstract
Simple SummaryChemotherapy, a conventional treatment strategy, is associated with several limitations. Alternatively, cancer nanotechnology offers new strategies for remedy from drug delivery and extending to therapeutics using nanoformulation. Recently, silver nanoparticles were utilized for different cancer theranostics. In this context, the current manuscript demonstrates the design and development of biologically synthesized silver nanoparticles (AgZE) and their applications for cancer theranostics. The synthesized AgZE is optimized and thoroughly characterized. The AgZE exhibits biocompatibility and selective anticancer activity towards the cancer cell lines established through various assays. The fluorescence properties of AgZE are observed in the NIR region (excitation: 710 nm, emission: 820 nm) in the normal and tumor bearing C57BL6/J mice. The silver of AgZE is found to be biodistributed in different vital organs as analyzed by ICPOES. Thereafter, these results highlight that AgZE could be an efficient cancer therapeutic and NIR based non-invasive imaging agent in the upcoming times.In the current communication, a simple, environmentally compatible, non-toxic green chemistry process is used for the development of silver nanoparticles (AgZE) by the reaction between silver nitrate (AgNO3) and the ethanolic leaf extract of Zinnia elegans (ZE). The optimization of AgZE is carried out using a series of experiments. Various physico-chemical techniques are utilized to characterize the nanomaterials. The cell viability assay of AgZE in normal cells (CHO, HEK-293T, EA.hy926, and H9c2) shows their biocompatible nature, which is supported by hemolytic assay using mouse RBC. Interestingly, the nanoparticles exhibited cytotoxicity towards different cancer cell lines (U-87, MCF-7, HeLa, PANC-1 and B16F10). The detailed anticancer activity of AgZE on human glioblastoma cell line (U-87) is exhibited through various in vitro assays. In vivo the AgZE illustrates anticancer activity by inhibiting blood vessel formation through CAM assay. Furthermore, the AgZE nanoparticles when intraperitoneally injected in C57BL6/J mice (with and without tumor) exhibit fluorescence properties in the NIR region (excitation: 710 nm, emission: 820 nm) evidenced by bioimaging studies. The AgZE biodistribution through ICPOES analysis illustrates the presence of silver in different vital organs. Considering all the results, AgZE could be useful as a potential cancer therapeutic agent, as well as an NIR based non-invasive imaging tool in near future.
Highlights
Cancer is considered the foremost basis of mortality as well as morbidity worldwide.Millions are being affected by cancer every year as per global statistics, with 19.3 million new cases, followed by deaths of 10 million, in the year 2020 [1,2,3,4]
Silver nanoparticles (AgZE) are synthesized using ethanolic (ZE) leaf extract where the extract acts as a reducing, capping agent as well as a stabilizing agent
The optimization of the reaction is carried out using a series of experiments by keeping the volume of AgNO3 constant (250 μL: 10−2 M) with varying volumes of Zinnia elegans (ZE) plant extract (ZE-100, -200, -300, and -500) and labeled as different reaction sets
Summary
Cancer is considered the foremost basis of mortality as well as morbidity worldwide.Millions are being affected by cancer every year as per global statistics, with 19.3 million new cases, followed by deaths of 10 million, in the year 2020 [1,2,3,4]. The conventional treatment therapies available for cancer treatment are surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, and immunotherapy, with chemotherapy being the most popular All of these conventional therapies have several limitations, including bioavailability, non-specificity, and toxicity [5,6]. Considering these limitations, researchers in the area of biomedical sciences have revolutionized cancer therapeutics with nanotechnology [7,8,9,10]. Our group has already developed several biosynthesized nanoparticles (silver- and gold-based) using different sources of plant leaf extract, and demonstrated their biological properties in various ways. The biosynthesis of nanoparticles is a bottom-up process with biological agents assisting reduction, capping, and stabilization [13,16,17,18]
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