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Pharmacokinetic analysis reveals limitations and opportunities for nanomedicine targeting of endothelial and extravascular compartments of tumours

Lookup NU author(s): David Bourne, Professor Moein MoghimiORCiD

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Abstract

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Targeting of nanoparticles to tumours can potentially improve the specificity of imaging and treatments. We have developed a multicompartmental pharmacokinetic model in order to analyse some of the factors that control efficiency of targeting to intravascular (endothelium) and extravascular (tumour cells and stroma) compartments. We make the assumption that transport across tumour endothelium is an important step for subsequent nanoparticle accumulation in the tumour (area-under-the-curve, AUC) regardless of entry route (interendothelial and transendothelial routes) and study this through a multicompartmental simulation. Our model reveals that increasing endothelial targeting efficiency has a much stronger effect on the AUC than increasing extravascular targeting efficiency. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that both extravasation and intratumoral diffusion rates need to be increased in order to significantly increase the AUC of extravascular-targeted nanoparticles. Increasing the nanoparticle circulation half-life increases the AUC independently of extravasation and intratumoral diffusion. Targeting the extravascular compartment leads to a buildup in the first layer surrounding blood vessels at the expense of deeper layers (binding site barrier). This model explains some of the limitations of tumour targeting and provides important guidelines for the design of targeted nanomedicines.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Benchimol MJ, Bourne D, Moghimi SM, Simberg D

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Drug Targeting

Year: 2019

Volume: 27

Issue: 5-6

Pages: 690-698

Online publication date: 07/01/2019

Acceptance date: 23/11/2018

ISSN (print): 1061-186X

ISSN (electronic): 1029-2330

Publisher: Taylor and Francis

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/1061186X.2019.1566339

DOI: 10.1080/1061186X.2019.1566339


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