Reversion of pH-induced physiological drug resistance: a novel function of copolymeric nanoparticles.

AIMS: The extracellular pH of cancer cells is lower than the intracellular pH. Weakly basic anticancer drugs will be protonated extracellularly and display a decreased intracellular concentration. In this study, we show that copolymeric nanoparticles (NPs) are able to overcome this "pH-induced...

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Main Authors: Rutian Li, Li Xie, Zhenshu Zhu, Qin Liu, Yong Hu, Xiqun Jiang, Lixia Yu, Xiaoping Qian, Wanhua Guo, Yitao Ding, Baorui Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3180282?pdf=render