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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS
Volume 108, Issue -, Pages 91-99Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2016.08.018
Keywords
Drug delivery system; Drug leakage-free; Chitosan micelles; pH-triggering; Controlled release
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20904017]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of the Ministry of Education of China [NCET-09-0441]
- Chunhui Project from the Ministry of Education of China [Z2012116]
- National Science Foundation for Fostering Talents in Basic Research of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [J1103307]
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A general strategy was developed to fabricate the chitosan-based micelles as smart drug delivery system (DDS) for anti-cancer drug doxorubicin (DOX), via modulating the feeding ratio of PEG (PEG(2000)-CHO) and molecular weight of chitosan. Typically, benefiting from the solubility of chitosan in media with different pH values as an off-on switch, the DOX/CS1000K-PEG(2) micelles possess spherical core with a narrow dispersed diameter of 64 nm and regular shell with a thickness of 14 nm in pH 7.4 PBS. Interestingly, the DOX/CS-PEG micelles exhibited drug leakage-free behavior in a physiological environment, with a cumulative release ratio of only 2.32% under pH 7.4 PBS, while achieving rapid drug release and a cumulative release ratio of 72.76% in the intracellular microenvironment. Moreover, the micelles transformed into the water-soluble CS100K-PEG(2) after the pH-triggered intracellular release of DOX, and it makes them easy to be biodegraded and eliminated by metabolic system. As revealed by MTT assays and CLSM images, DOX could be efficiently and rapidly transported into cell nuclei of tumor cells and showed significant cell inhibition. The simple fabrication and excellent properties make them intelligent and favorable on-demand DDS in cancer treatment (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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