Abstract
Anticancer drugs cause severe side effects on normal tissues and organs due to their nonspecific delivery. Thus, tumor-targeting delivery of anticancer drugs remains a serious challenge in chemotherapy. Here a facile strategy was established for the pH/reductant dual-responsive core-cross-linked (CCL) micelles for tumor-targeted delivery of anticancer drug, via in situ atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). In the in vitro controlled release experiments with doxorubicin (DOX) as a model drug, the premature drug leakage rate was only 13.4% in the physiological medium within 36 h, while the cumulative release rate in the stimulated tumor microenvironment reached 78.7%, demonstrating the excellent tumor microenvironment responsive controlled release behavior upon acidic medium with high GSH level. As a folate receptor (FR) mediated targeting drug delivery system (DDS), the micelles showed excellent cytocompatibility, and enhanced anticancer efficiency after loading of DOX, compared with free DOX.
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