Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Reaction Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui 230009, P. R. China.
AECC Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, Beijing 100095, P. R. China.
Biomacromolecules. 2024 Mar 11;25(3):1838-1849. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.3c01274. Epub 2024 Feb 20.
Considering the complexity of physiological microenvironments and the risks of surgical infection, there still remains critical demand to develop a hydrogel as a drug release platform with multifunctional properties, including good neutral stability and sensitive multiple stimuli-responsive behaviors, as well as injectable and self-healing properties. Herein, we present a facile preparation of injectable, self-healing hydrogels with acid and glutathione (GSH) dual-responsiveness for controlled drug delivery. Initially, the anticancer drug camptothecin (CPT) was premodified with disulfide bonds and attached to poly(ethylenimine) (PEI) via the Schiff base reaction, resulting in PEI-CPT. Subsequently, OSA-IR780 was synthesized through the Schiff base reaction involving IR780 with amine groups (IR780-NH) and oxidized sodium alginate with aldehyde groups (OSA). The formation of PEI-CPT/OSA-IR780 hydrogels with various solid contents occurred rapidly within 40 s through a simple mixing process of the aqueous solution of PEI-CPT and OSA-IR780. These hydrogels exhibited remarkable stability under neutral conditions and controlled release of CPT upon exposure to simulated tumor environments characterized by acidic conditions and elevated GSH concentrations. Furthermore, they had significant injectable and self-healing properties due to the dynamically imine-cross-linked networks. In addition, the prepared hydrogels exhibited long-term biodegradability and biocompatibility. Collectively, these features indicate the great potential of PEI-CPT/OSA-IR780 hydrogels as therapeutic delivery vehicles.
考虑到生理微环境的复杂性和手术感染的风险,仍然迫切需要开发一种水凝胶作为药物释放平台,该平台具有多功能特性,包括良好的中性稳定性和敏感的多重刺激响应行为,以及可注射和自修复特性。在此,我们提出了一种简便的方法来制备具有酸和谷胱甘肽(GSH)双重响应性的可注射、自修复水凝胶,用于控制药物释放。首先,通过二硫键将抗癌药物喜树碱(CPT)进行预修饰,并通过席夫碱反应将其连接到聚(乙二胺)(PEI)上,得到 PEI-CPT。随后,通过席夫碱反应将 IR780-NH 与氧化的海藻酸钠(OSA)中的醛基反应合成了 OSA-IR780。PEI-CPT/OSA-IR780 水凝胶在不同固含量下,通过将 PEI-CPT 的水溶液与 OSA-IR780 简单混合,在 40 s 内迅速形成。这些水凝胶在中性条件下具有显著的稳定性,并且在暴露于模拟肿瘤环境时,由于酸性条件和升高的 GSH 浓度,可控制 CPT 的释放。此外,由于动态亚胺交联网络,它们具有显著的可注射和自修复特性。此外,所制备的水凝胶具有长期的生物降解性和生物相容性。总的来说,这些特性表明 PEI-CPT/OSA-IR780 水凝胶作为治疗性药物输送载体具有巨大的潜力。