Author: Duan Yourong Sun Xun Gong Tao Wang Qi Zhang Zhirong
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0957-4530
Source: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, Vol.17, Iss.6, 2006-06, pp. : 509-516
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Abstract
This study describes the preparation and the evaluation of biodegradation monomethoxy (polyethylene glycol)-poly (lactide-co-glycolide)-monomethoxy (polyethyleneglycol) (mPEG-PLGA-mPEG, PELGE) nanoparticles (PELGE-NP) containing mitoxantrone (DHAQ) as a model drug. PELGE copolymers with various molar ratios of lactic to glycolic acid and different molecular weights and various content mPEG were synthesized by ring-opening polymerization. mPEG with weight-average molecular weight (Mw) 2000 or 5000 was introduced as a hydrophilic segment into a hydrophobic PLGA. A double emulsion method with dextran70 as stabilizer in the external aqueous phase was used to prepare the nanoparticles. The drug entrapment efficiencies were more than 80% and the mean diameters of the nanoparticles were less than 200 nm. Various PELGE was studied as biodegradable drug carriers and there