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Polymeric Chloroquine: Modifying An Old Drug To Make It A Little Sweeter, Richard Sleightholm
Polymeric Chloroquine: Modifying An Old Drug To Make It A Little Sweeter, Richard Sleightholm
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Hydroxyethyl starch (HES) is a clinically used polysaccharide colloidal plasma volume expander. The goal of this study was to synthesize HES modified with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a novel polymeric drug with the ability to inhibit the invasive character of pancreatic cancer (PC) cells. HES was conjugated with HCQ using a simple carbonyldiimidazole coupling to prepare Chloroquine-modified HES (CQ-HES). CQ-HES with various degrees of HCQ substitution were synthesized and characterized. In vitro studies showed CQ-HES to have a similar toxicity profile as HCQ. Confocal microscopy revealed the propensity of CQ-HES to localize to lysosomes, and mechanistic studies confirmed the ability of …