- Chitosan-Acrylic polymeric nanoparticles with dynamic covalent bonds. Synthesis and stimuli behavior
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Drug delivery represents one of the most important research fields within the pharmaceutical industry. Different strategies are reported every day in a dynamic search for carriers with the ability to transport drugs across the body, avoiding or decreasing toxic issues and improving therapeutic activity. One of the most interesting strategies currently under research is the development of drug delivery systems sensitive to different stimuli, due to the high potential attributed to the selective delivery of the payload. In this work, a stimuli-sensitive nanocarrier was built with a bifunctional acrylic polymer, linked by imine and disulfide bonds to thiolate chitosan, the latter being a biopolymer widely known in the field of tissue engineering and drug delivery by its biodegradability and biocompatibility. These polymer nanoparticles were exposed to different changes in pH and redox potential, which are environments commonly found inside cancer cells. The results proof the ability of the nanoparticles to keep the original structure when either changes in pH or redox potential were applied individually. However, when both stimuli were applied simultaneously, a disassembly of the nanoparticles was evident. These special characteristics make these nanoparticles suitable nanocarriers with potential for the selective delivery of anticancer drugs.
- Palacio, Herman,Otálvaro, Felipe,Giraldo, Luis Fernando,Ponchel, Gilles,Segura-Sánchez, Freimar
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p. 1132 - 1143
(2017/12/26)
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- Chitosan-acrylic polymeric nanoparticles with dynamic covalent bonds. Synthesis and stimuli behavior
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Drug delivery represents one of the most important research fields within the pharmaceutical industry. Different strategies are reported every day in a dynamic search for carriers with the ability to transport drugs across the body, avoiding or decreasing toxic issues and improving therapeutic activity. One of the most interesting strategies currently under research is the development of drug delivery systems sensitive to different stimuli, due to the high potential attributed to the selective delivery of the payload. In this work, a stimuli-sensitive nanocarrier was built with a bifunctional acrylic polymer, linked by imine and disulfide bonds to thiolate chitosan, the latter being a biopolymer widely known in the field of tissue engineering and drug delivery by its biodegradability and biocompatibility. These polymer nanoparticles were exposed to different changes in pH and redox potential, which are environments commonly found inside cancer cells. The results proof the ability of the nanoparticles to keep the original structure when either changes in pH or redox potential were applied individually. However, when both stimuli were applied simultaneously, a disassembly of the nanoparticles was evident. These special characteristics make these nanoparticles suitable nanocarriers with potential for the selective delivery of anticancer drugs.
- Palacio, Herman,Segura-Sánchez, Freimar,Otálvaro, Felipe,Giraldo, Luis Fernando,Ponchel, Gilles
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p. 1132 - 1143
(2018/05/02)
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- Templating carbohydrate-functionalised polymer-scaffolded dynamic combinatorial libraries with lectins
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A conceptually new approach to the design of macromolecular receptors for lectins is outlined. Carbohydrate-functionalised Polymer-Scaffolded Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries (PS-DCLs) have been prepared in aqueous solution by the reversible conjugation of carbohydrates possessing acylhydrazide functionalities in their aglycone on to an aldehyde-functionalised polymer scaffold. PS-DCLs have been shown to undergo compositional change in response to the addition of lectin templates, with polymer scaffolds preferentially incorporating carbohydrate units which recognise the lectin added. This compositional change has been shown to generate polymers of significantly enhanced affinity for the lectin added, with enhancements in free energy of binding in the range of 5.2-8.8 kJ mol-1 observed. Experiments indicate that these enhancements are not only as a consequence of increased display of the preferred carbohydrate upon the polymer scaffold, but that templation also reorganises key residues into strategic positions in order to interact more strongly with the target. This journal is
- Mahon, Clare S.,Fascione, Martin A.,Sakonsinsiri, Chadamas,McAllister, Tom E.,Bruce Turnbull,Fulton, David A.
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p. 2756 - 2761
(2015/04/22)
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- PH triggered self-assembly of core cross-linked star polymers possessing thermoresponsive cores
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Core cross-linked star polymers possessing responsiveness to pH and temperature stimuli have been prepared, and we demonstrate how changes to pH and temperature can be used to trigger the release and uptake of a hydrophobic dye.
- Jackson, Alexander W.,Fulton, David A.
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p. 6807 - 6809
(2011/08/21)
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- Templating a polymer-scaffolded dynamic combinatorial library
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A water soluble polymer-scaffolded dynamic combinatorial library whose members can interconvert through acylhydrazone exchange was prepared and shown to re-equilibrate in the presence of macromolecular templates.
- Mahon, Clare S.,Jackson, Alexander W.,Murray, Benjamin S.,Fulton, David A.
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p. 7209 - 7211
(2011/09/12)
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