A targeted and redox/pH-responsive chitosan oligosaccharide derivatives based nanohybrids for overcoming multidrug resistance of breast cancer cells

A novel folic acid mediated chitosan oligosaccharide-grafted disulfide-containing polyethylenimine copolymer-based silica nanohybrids were fabricated for co-delivering paclitaxel and P-shRNA. These nanoparticles could efficiently protect P-shRNA against degradation, and exhibited well redox-responsive P-shRNA release and pH-responsive drug release behaviors. Folic acid as the targeting head, could improve cellular uptake of nanoparticles by...