Decreased Core Crystallinity Facilitated Drug Loading in Polymeric Micelles without Affecting Their Biological Performances

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Jingxin Gou ; Shuangshuang Feng ; Helin Xu ; Guihua Fang ; Yanhui Chao ; Yu Zhang ; Hui Xu ; Xing Tang
• 刊名：Biomacromolecules
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 14, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：16
• 期：9
• 页码：2920-2929
• 全文大小：600K
• ISSN：1526-4602

文摘

Cargo-loading capacity of polymeric micelles could be improved by reducing the core crystallinity and the improvement in the amount of loaded cargo was cargo-polymer affinity dependent. The effect of medium chain triglyceride (MCT) in inhibiting PCL crystallization was confirmed by DSC and polarized microscope. When incorporating MCT into polymeric micelles, the maximum drug loading of disulfiram (DSF), cabazitaxel (CTX), and TM-2 (a taxane derivative) increased from 2.61 卤 0.100%, 13.5 卤 0.316%, and 20.9 卤 1.57% to 8.34 卤 0.197%, 21.7 卤 0.951%, and 28.0 卤 1.47%, respectively. Moreover, the prepared oil-containing micelles (OCMs) showed well-controlled particle size, good stability, and decreased drug release rate. MCT incorporation showed little influence on the performances of micelles in cell studies or pharmacokinetics. These results indicated that MCT incorporation could be a core construction module applied in the delivery of hydrophobic drugs.