Toxicity of cisplatin-loaded poly butyl cyanoacrylate nanoparticles in a brain cancer cell line: Anionic polymerization results

Cancer is one of the most important issues in modern medicine and the most common cause of death after
cardiovascular diseases in many countries. Brain cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer death among men
and women, ranking third. Chemotherapeutic drugs that aim to prevent uncontrolled proliferation of cells in tissues of
the body and induce apoptosis of tumor cells are prominent candidates for development. Since cisplatin has an apoptosisinducing
role, it is widely used as an anticancer agent. In this research, toxicity of cisplatin was studied with the C6
rat glioma cell lined using the MTT method. In addition, nanoparticles underwent SEM microscopic imaging. Particle
average size, size distribution, polydispersity index (PDI) and zeta potential of poly butyl cyanoacrylate nanoparticles
were found to be 222 nm, 0.470 ± 0.04 and 5.1 ± 0.2 mV, respectively. The results showed that nanoconjugates of
cisplatin have more cytotoxic effects on C6 cells than the free drug (P<0.05), pointing to an enhanced potential of the
synthesized nano-particles as a new nanocarrier for chemotherapy