Abstract (eng)
The insufficient delivery of drugs in the therapy of various urinary bladder diseases, most prominently cancer, is considered a primary cause for shortcomings in the contemporary treatment schedules. This work offers a novel strategy of drug delivery to bladder cancer, based on biorecognition with two lectins (PNA & WGA) in order to gain a stronger cell adhesion and more selective targeting of malignant tissue.
Biocompatible PLGA micro- and nanoparticles were surface-modified with PNA and WGA, and characterized with regard to their binding capacity on three human urothelial cell lines and donor cells, corresponding to healthy tissue and low grade or high grade carcinoma, respectively.
Flow cytometry was used to determine binding capacity and specificity on single cells and fluorescence microscopy was used to investigate particle binding on cell monolayers. Basic experiments featured a co-culture of SV-HUC and 5637 cells, a time lapse study of binding and an investigation on the influence of Pluronic-F68® on the binding capacity. Investigations for WGA binding capacity featured N, N`, N``-triacetylchitotriose, to proof the benefit obtained by a surface modification with WGA, whereas neuraminidase was used to investigate the causative principle for increased PNA-binding to different tumor stages.
The surface modification with WGA significantly increased particle binding rates compared to HSA- and non-surface modified particles to all cell lines and binding maxima were reached within 30min. Considering the intended form of application as an instillation, the short time required to reach maximum binding could be of great benefit, and furthermore the PLGA particles may probably be washed out to a lesser extent after the termination of the instillation, which would increase residence time and drug exposure.
This suggests promising potential for a use in intravesical drug delivery systems, and provides novel perspectives for the regionalized therapy of diseases of the human urinary bladder