Sylwia Milewska, Gabriela Siemiaszko, Agnieszka Zofia Wilczewska, Iwona Misztalewska-Turkowicz, Karolina Halina Markiewicz, Dawid Szymczuk, Diana Sawicka, Halina Car, Ryszard Lazny, Katarzyna Niemirowicz-Laskowska
Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide and the third most frequently diagnosed form of cancer associated with high mortality rates. Recently, targeted drug delivery systems have been under increasing attention owing to advantages such as high therapeutic effectiveness with a significant depletion in adverse events. In this report, we describe the biocompatible and thermoresponsive FA-conjugated PHEA- b -PNIPAAm copolymers as nanocarriers for the delivery of 5-FU. The block copolymers were obtained using RAFT (Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer) polymerization and were characterized by methods such as SEC (Size Exclusion Chromatography), NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance), UV-Vis (Ultraviolet-Visible), FT-IR (Fourier Transform Infrared) spectroscopy, and TGA (Thermogravimetric Analysis)...
January 10, 2023: International Journal of Molecular Sciences