BIONANOTRANSPORTERS THAT MODULATE THE CELLULAR REDOX SYSTEM FOR THE TREATMENT OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA AND SYNTHESIS METHODS.

Abstract

The present invention describes novel drug-carrying nanoparticles called bionanocarriers capable of modulating the cellular redox system and targeting the cancerous tumor.Specifically, the invention relates to a nanomedicine strategy for combating cancerous tumor cells, a strategy that aims to target the tumor, and consists of providing quercetin-linked magnetite nanoparticles (Q): (MNPs Q), and 3,5-dimaleylbenzoic acid-linked magnetite nanoparticles (A3'5DMB): (MNPs A3'5DMB)M; both types of nanoparticles were subsequently encapsulated with chitosan (Qs) and O-carboxymethyl chitosan (O-CMQs), functionalized with 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid (MUDA), and finally the anti-ABCC3 antibody was attached to the polymer phase, which was used as a selective driver of the delivery process of the encapsulated nanoparticles, thus carrying out the construction of the bionanocarriers: BNC-1: MNPs-Q-Ab; BNC-2: MNPs-a3'5DMB-Ab.Its manufacturing method and the tests of its biological functionality, its stability, the degradation of the encapsulation for the tumor microenvironment, the controlled release profile of the drugs Q and A3'5DMB, selective cell uptake, intracellular localization, cytotoxic effect on steroids of hepatocellular carcinoma cells with altered redox balance and induction of apoptosis, as well as its safety on normal cells, are described.