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Hydrogel Transformed from Nanoparticles for Prevention of Tissue Injury and Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases

Journal

ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 34, Issue 16, Pages -

Publisher

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202109178

Keywords

drug delivery; host-guest interactions; inflammatory diseases; responsive hydrogel; transformable nanoparticles

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [81971727, 31670971]
  2. National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFC1105302]
  3. Double First Class University Plan of Zhejiang University
  4. Program for Distinguished Young Scholars of TMMU

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This study reports the engineering of functional hydrogels that respond to physiological and pathological acidic microenvironments using transformable nanoparticles. These nanoparticles can protect mice from gastric injury and be used for triggerable and sustained drug delivery for treating inflammatory diseases. The engineered transformable nanoparticles have great potential for tissue injury protection and site-specific/local delivery of therapeutic agents.
Functional hydrogels responsive to physiological and pathological signals have extensive biomedical applications owing to their multiple advanced attributes. Herein, engineering of functional hydrogels is reported via transformable nanoparticles in response to the physiologically and pathologically acidic microenvironment. These nanoparticles are assembled by a multivalent hydrophobic, pH-responsive cyclodextrin host material and a multivalent hydrophilic guest macromolecule. Driven by protons, the pH-responsive host-guest nanoparticles can be transformed into hydrogel, resulting from proton-triggered hydrolysis of the host material, generation of a hydrophilic multivalent host compound, and simultaneously enhanced inclusion interactions between host and guest molecules. By in situ forming a hydrogel barrier, the orally delivered transformable nanoparticles protect mice from ethanol- or drug-induced gastric injury. In addition, this type of nanoparticles can serve as responsive and transformable nanovehicles for therapeutic agents to achieve triggerable and sustained drug delivery, thereby effectively treating typical inflammatory diseases, including periodontitis and arthritis in rats. With combined advantages of nanoparticles and hydrogels, together with their good in vivo safety, the engineered transformable nanoparticles hold great promise in tissue injury protection and site-specific/local delivery of molecular and cellular therapeutic agents.

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