In Vivo Biodistribution of Mixed Shell Micelles with Tunable Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Surface

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• 作者：Hongjun Gao ; Jie Xiong ; Tangjian Cheng ; Jinjian Liu ; Liping Chu ; Jianfeng Liu ; Rujiang Ma ; Linqi Shi
• 刊名：Biomacromolecules
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：February 11, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：14
• 期：2
• 页码：460-467
• 全文大小：417K
• 年卷期：v.14,no.2(February 11, 2013)
• ISSN：1526-4602

文摘

The miserable targeting performance of nanocarriers for cancer therapy arises largely from the rapid clearance from blood circulation and the major accumulation in the organs of the reticuloendothelial system (RES), leading to inefficient enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect after intravenous injection (i.v.). Herein, we reported an efficient method to prolong the blood circulation of nanoparticles and decrease their deposition in liver and spleen. In this work, we fabricated a series of mixed shell micelles (MSMs) with approximately the same size, charge and core composition but with varied hydrophilic/hydrophobic ratios in the shell through spontaneously self-assembly of block copolymers poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(mallcaps">l-lysine) (PEG-b-PLys) and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-block-poly(aspartic acid) (PNIPAM-b-PAsp) in aqueous medium. The effect of the surface heterogeneity on the in vivo biodistribution was systematically investigated through in vivo tracking of the ¹²⁵I-labeled MSMs determined by Gamma counter. Compared with single PEGylated micelles, some MSMs were proved to be significantly efficient with more than 3 times lower accumulation in liver and spleen and about 6 times higher concentration in blood at 1 h after i.v.. The results provide us a novel strategy for future development of long-circulating nanocarriers for efficient cancer therapy.