Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2025, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (22): 4795-4803.doi: 10.12307/2025.466

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Effects of self-assembling peptide hydrogels on tumor treatment

He Huanhuan1, 2, Tian Shijia1, 2, Chen Luoying1, 2, Liu Yanfei1, 2   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of Cell Engineering, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, Guizhou Province, China; 2Organizational Injury Repair and Regenerative Medicine Provincial and Departmental Collaborative Innovation Center, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, Guizhou Province, China
  • Received:2024-06-22 Accepted:2024-07-27 Online:2025-08-08 Published:2024-12-06
  • Contact: Liu Yanfei, Associate professor, Key Laboratory of Cell Engineering, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, Guizhou Province, China; Organizational Injury Repair and Regenerative Medicine Provincial and Departmental Collaborative Innovation Center, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, Guizhou Province, China
  • About author:He Huanhuan, Master candidate, Key Laboratory of Cell Engineering, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, Guizhou Province, China; Organizational Injury Repair and Regenerative Medicine Provincial and Departmental Collaborative Innovation Center, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi 563000, Guizhou Province, China
  • Supported by:
    Basic Research Project of Guizhou Provincial Department of Science and Technology, No. ZK[2024]316 (to LYF)

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Self-assembling peptide hydrogels exhibit excellent biocompatibility, controllable physicochemical properties, and release capabilities, offering extensive application potential in tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biosensing fields.
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the research progress of self-assembling peptide hydrogel in cancer therapy in recent years.
METHODS: Using the search terms “self-assembling peptides, hydrogel, sustained release, antitumor, tumor therapy” in Chinese and English, CNKI, PubMed, and Elsevier ScienceDirect databases were searched for relevant literature published from 2000 to 2024. Finally, 81 articles were included in the review. 
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Self-assembling peptide hydrogels, as a novel biomaterial, can be used as a sustained-release drug carrier to load a variety of anti-tumor drugs, and immunosuppressants, targeting tumor sites, inducing tumor cell death, reducing drug dosage, and increasing drug accumulation in tumor sites, thereby reducing the probability of toxic side effects and multidrug resistance. Moreover, anti-tumor hydrogels with natural activity can directly kill tumor cells without relying on drugs, and can minimize the toxic side effects of anti-tumor drugs when used alone.

Key words: self-assembling peptide, hydrogel, sustained release, anti-tumor, tissue engineering

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