Journal
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 478-488Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11095-012-0893-3
Keywords
cross-linked nanoassemblies; drug carriers; drug delivery; nanoparticles; polymer micelles
Funding
- Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Program
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To identify the effects of cross-linkers and drug-binding linkers on physicochemical and biological properties of polymer nanoassembly drug carriers. Four types of polymer nanoassemblies were synthesized from poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(aspartate) [PEG-p(Asp)] block copolymers: self-assembled nanoassemblies (SNAs) and cross-linked nanoassemblies (CNAs) to each of which an anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX) was loaded by either physical entrapment or chemical conjugation (through acid-sensitive hydrazone linkers). Drug loading in nanoassemblies was 27 similar to 56% by weight. The particle size of SNA changed after drug and drug-binding linker entrapment (20 similar to 100 nm), whereas CNAs remained 30 similar to 40 nm. Drug release rates were fine-tunable by using amide cross-linkers and hydrazone drug-binding linkers in combination. In vitro cytotoxicity assays using a human lung cancer A549 cell line revealed that DOX-loaded nanoassemblies were equally potent as free DOX with a wide range of drug release half-life (t(1/2) = 3.24 similar to 18.48 h, at pH 5.0), but 5 times less effective when t(1/2) = 44.52 h. Nanoassemblies that incorporate cross-linkers and drug-binding linkers in combination have pharmaceutical advantages such as uniform particle size, physicochemical stability, fine-tunable drug release rates, and maximum cytotoxicity of entrapped drug payloads.
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