October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
218 pages
7h 18m
English
D. Mishra, T.S. Iyyanki, J.R. Hubenak, Q. Zhang and A.B. Mathur, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
Curcumin is a potent anticancer molecule naturally derived from the spice turmeric and was combined with silk fibroin (SF) to improve its intracellular bioavailability. This study focused on the fabrication and characterization of SF nanoparticles loaded with curcumin (SF-curcumin) and evaluated their efficacy in vitro using a metastatic breast cancer cell line (GILM2). SF-curcumin nanoparticles were characterized for particle size, morphology, curcumin loading efficiency and release kinetics, efficacy against GILM2 cells, and protein expression ...