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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 456, Issue 1, Pages 235-242Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2013.07.059
Keywords
Accelerated blood clearance (ABC) phenomenon; Anti-PEG IgM; Polyethylene glycol (PEG); Polyglycerine (PG); Repeated administration
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan [23390012]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23390012] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The accelerated blood clearance (ABC) phenomenon accounts for the rapid systemic clearance of PEGylated nanocarriers upon repeated administrations. IgM production against the polyethylene glycol (PEG) coating in PEGylated liposomes is now known to be responsible for such unexpected pharmacokinetical alterations. The ABC phenomenon poses a remarkable clinical challenge by reducing the therapeutic efficacy of encapsulated drugs and causing harmful effects due to the altered tissue distribution pattern of the drugs. In this study, we investigated the in vivo performance of liposomes modified with polyglycerol (PG) upon repeated injection, and the in vivo therapeutic efficacy of such liposomes when they encapsulated a cytotoxic agent, doxorubicin (DXR). Repeated injection of PEG-coated liposomes in rats induced the ABC phenomenon, while repeated injection of PG-coated liposomes did not. In addition, DXR-containing PG-coated liposomes showed antitumor activity that was superior to that of free DXR and similar to that of DXR-containing PEG-coated liposomes upon repeated administration. These results indicate that polyglycerol (PG) might represent a promising alternative to PEG via enhancing the in vivo performance of liposomes by not eliciting the ABC phenomenon upon repeated administration. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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