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.