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ACS NANO
卷 12, 期 8, 页码 8397-8405出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b03760
关键词
micromotor; pill; biofluid propulsion; gastric delivery; drug vehicle
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- Defense Threat Reduction Agency Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense [HDTRA1-13-1-0002, HDTRA1-14-1-0064]
- Charles Lee Powell Foundation
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT)
- Fulbright grants
- Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT)
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201706895002]
Tremendous progress has been made during the past decade toward the design of nano/micromotors with high biocompatibility, multifunctionality, and efficient propulsion in biological fluids, which collectively have led to the initial investigation of in vivo biomedical applications of these synthetic motors. Despite these recent advances in micromotor designs and mechanistic research, significant effort is needed to develop appropriate formulations of micromotors to facilitate their in vivo administration and thus to better test their in vivo applicability. Herein, we present a micromotor pill and demonstrate its attractive use as a platform for in vivo oral delivery of active micromotors. The micromotor pill is comprised of active Mg-based micromotors dispersed uniformly in the pill matrix, containing inactive (lactose/maltose) excipients and other disintegration-aiding (cellulose/starch) additives. Our in vivo studies using a mouse model show that the micromotor pill platform effectively protects and carries the active micromotors to the stomach, enabling their release in a micromotor encapsulation and the inactive excipient materials have no effects on the motion of the released micromotors. The released cargo-loaded micromotors propel in gastric fluid, retaining the high-performance characteristics of in vitro micromotors while providing higher cargo retention onto the stomach lining compared to orally administrated free micromotors and passive microparticles. Furthermore, the micromotor pills and the loaded micromotors retain the same characteristics and propulsion behavior after extended storage in harsh conditions. These results illustrate that combining the advantages of traditional pills with the efficient movement of micromotors offer an appealing route for administrating micromotors for potential in vivo biomedical applications.
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