“…TMZ is an alkylating agent; these alkylating species inhibits DNA replication by delivering a methyl group to purine bases of DNA (N7-guanine, O6-guanine and N3-adenine) (Zhang, Stevens, & Bradshaw, 2012). TMZ drug is a fast degradable and short plasma half-life of 1.8 hr, encapsulation of TMZ drug into nanomaterials can be advantageous to attain the controlled, stable and sustained release of the TMZ drug for inhibition of tumour cells growth, several nanomaterials have been studied, which were listed in the Table 1 (Akbar et al, 2009;Fang et al, 2015;Fourniols et al, 2015;Huang, Lin, Wen, Gu, & Zhao, 2016;Irani, Sadeghi, & Haririan, 2018;Irani et al, 2017aIrani et al, , 2017bKumari, Ahsan, Kumar, Kondapi, & Rao, 2017; Lanz-Landázuri, Portilla-Arias, Martínez de Ilarduya, García-Alvarez, & Holler, 2014;Ni, Fan, Wang, Qi, & Li, 2014;Ramachandran et al, 2017;Scott et al, 2011;Tavakoli et al, 2017;Xu, Shen, et al, 2016;Zhang & Gao, 2007;Zheng, Wang, Liu, Xie, & Deng, 2018). In addition, the advantage of local delivery of TMZ drug as compared with oral administration has been shown in rodent glioblastoma models (Ni et al, 2014;Brem et al, 2007).…”