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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 145-149Publisher
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1004-9541(09)60046-X
Keywords
hydroxylpropyl cellulose; thermosensitive; pH sensitive; micelle; theophylline
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In this study, double-hydrophilic hydroxylpropyl cellulose (HPC) based copolymers with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) as graft chains were synthesized and characterized. The release behavior of drug-loaded micelles was studied. The results show that the hydrophilicity of copolymers improves as the pH increases, whereas the hydrophobicity of copolymers enhances as the temperature increases, and all the phase behaviors are reversible. The diameter of micelles decreases and then increases with pH increase. It shows different micellizing behavior under acidic and basic conditions according to the temperature increase. In vitro release experiments, which used theophylline as a model drug, show that the micelles enhance pH sensitivity in the release process.
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