Journal
COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
Volume 143, Issue -, Pages 359-370Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2016.03.057
Keywords
Liposomes; Silicone; Stabilization; Cytotoxicity; Drug delivery; Nanocarriers
Funding
- Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University
- Foundation for Polish Science Team Programme - EU European Regional Development Fund, PolyMed [TEAM/2008-2/6]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education [75/E-68/S/2008-2]
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Development of silicone stabilized liposomes which can serve as novel drug nanocarriers is presented. Silicone precursor 1,3,5,7-tetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D-4(H)) was introduced into the bilayer of the cationic liposomes prepared from egg yolk phosphatidylocholine (PC) and double-tailed dimethyldioctadecylammonium bromide (DODAB). The silicone material was created inside of the liposomal bilayer in the base-catalyzed polycondensation process of the D-4(H) what was confirmed employing Si-29 solid-state MAS NMR and FTIR measurements. Surfactant lysis experiments revealed that resulted systems can be effectively stabilized. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements demonstrated that the silicone-stabilized liposomes have typical lipid vesicle's morphology and mean hydrodynamic diameters in the range of about 110 nm. They have considerably lower tendency for aggregation than the pristine liposomes. The permeability of vesicles can be tuned by introducing various amounts of silicone precursor into the liposome bilayer, as confirmed in calcein-release studies. The effect of fetal bovine serum (FBS) on the stability of liposomes was also tested in in vitro studies. Biological studies revealed that resulted liposomes can be considered as possible drug nanocarriers because they are not toxic to human skin fibroblasts (HSFs) and mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs). (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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