posted on 2015-09-02, 00:00authored byZhanfeng Li, Ting Yang, Chunming Lin, Quanshun Li, Songfeng Liu, Fengzhi Xu, Hongyan Wang, Xuejun Cui
A facile
sonochemical approach is designed to fabricate protein
nanocapsules for hydrophilic drugs (HDs), and HD-loaded multifunctional
bovine serum albumin (BSA) nanocapsules (MBNCs) have been prepared
for the first time. The as-synthesized HD-loaded MBNCs have a satisfying
size range and an excellent magnetic responsive ability. Moreover,
high-dose hydrophilic drugs could be loaded into the MBNCs. As carriers,
HD-loaded MBNCs also show attractive redox-responsive controlled release
ability for hydrophilic drugs and could be internalized selectively
by the tumor cells through the folate-mediated endocytosis.