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Assessment of Curcumin Nanoemulsion's Cytotoxic Effect on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Potential Therapeutic Strategy

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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In cancer photodynamic treatment (PDT), curcumin can be used as a photosensitizing agent in addition to its anticancer therapeutic properties. However, curcumin's limited therapeutic value in cancer treatment is due to its poor bioavailability and associated pharmacokinetics. Due to its strong anticancer effects, curcumin was prepared as a nanoemulsion with an average particle size of 17.47 nm for improved bioavailability in this in vitro investigation on the treatment of breast cancer. We evaluated this curcumin nanoemulsion's anti-tumor efficaciousness on HepG2 cell lines using the MTT assay. Surprisingly, our research showed that the IC50 concentrations for cells treated with curcumin nanoemulsion alone were 600 ng/ml, while the IC50 concentrations for cells treated with curcumin nanoemulsion plus laser therapy were 850 ng/ml. The produced curcumin had encouraging benefits. The created curcumin nanoemulsion has a lot of potential for use as a strong anticancer medication. In summary, PDT of curcumin nanoemulsion shows a major involvement in the death of cancer cells via many apoptotic mechanisms.

DOI

10.21608/djs.2024.299429.1169

Keywords

PDT photodynamictherapy, IC50 inhibitory concentration, hepg2 hepatocellular carcinoma, TEM transsmission electron microscope

Authors

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Abdelkhalik

MiddleName

Ahmed

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Assistant lecture at SUE

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emanharby22@yahoo.com

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0000-0003-4406-3022

First Name

Tarek

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

Mohamed

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Professor of Biochemistry , Chemistry Department , Tanta university ,Tanta

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tarek967@hotmail.com

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cairo

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49

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1

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50261

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2024-09-01

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2024-06-25

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2024-09-01

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196

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206

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1012-5965

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2735-5306

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Delta Journal of Science

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Assessment of Curcumin Nanoemulsion's Cytotoxic Effect on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells: A Potential Therapeutic Strategy

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28 Dec 2024