1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DOPE) with purity > 99% were purchased from
Avati Polar Lipids, Inc (Alabaster, USA). Paclitaxel (purity > 99%) was purchased from Fresenius
Kabi India Pvt. Ltd. (India). Taxol was purchased from Cipla Ltd. (India) and Abraxane was purchased
from Biocon (India). Dialysis membrane (molecular wt. cutoff 5000–10000), Dulbecco's Modified Eagles
Medium (DMEM), fetal bovine serum (FBS), antibiotic antimycotic solution, sodium azide, phosphate
buffered saline (PBS) and trypsin-EDTA solution were purchased from Himedia Laboratories Pvt Ltd.,
Mumbai (India). Sulphorhodamine-B was purchased from Sigma Aldrich, Mumbai (India). Rhodamine-6G was
purchased from Anaspec Inc. (San. Jose, CA, USA) and BCA protein assay kit was purchased from Thermo
Scientific, Pierce (Rockford, Il, USA). Mouse TNF-α, mouse IL-1β and mouse IL-6 elisa kits were
purchased from RayBiotech, Inc., USA. High pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) grade methanol and
chloroform were purchased from Merck, Mumbai (India). All the tissue culture plates and tissue
culture flasks were purchased from NUNC (USA). High purity water purified by a Milli Q Plus water
purifier system (Milli pore, USA), with a resistivity of 18.2 MΩcm, was used in all experiments.