scholarly journals Mesoporous Silica-Bioglass Composite Pellets as Bone Drug Delivery System with Mineralization Potential

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 4708
Author(s):  
Adrian Szewczyk ◽  
Adrianna Skwira ◽  
Agnieszka Konopacka ◽  
Rafał Sądej ◽  
Magdalena Prokopowicz

For decades, local bone drug delivery systems have been investigated in terms of their application in regenerative medicine. Among them, inorganic polymers based on amorphous silica have been widely explored. In this work, we combined two types of amorphous silica: bioglass and doxycycline-loaded mesoporous silica MCM-41 into the form of spherical granules (pellets) as a bifunctional bone drug delivery system. Both types of silica were obtained in a sol-gel method. The drug adsorption onto the MCM-41 was performed via adsorption from concentrated doxycycline hydrochloride solution. Pellets were obtained on a laboratory scale using the wet granulation-extrusion-spheronization method and investigated in terms of physical properties, drug release, antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, mineralization properties in simulated body fluid, and cytotoxicity towards human osteoblasts. The obtained pellets were characterized by satisfactory mechanical properties which eliminated the risk of pellets cracking during further investigations. The biphasic drug release from pellets was observed: burst stage (44% of adsorbed drug released within the first day) followed by prolonged release with zero-order kinetics (estimated time of complete drug release was 19 days) with maintained antimicrobial activity. The progressive biomimetic apatite formation on the surface of the pellets was observed. No cytotoxic effect of pellets towards human osteoblasts was noticed.

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yousef Fazaeli ◽  
Mohammad Amin Hosseini ◽  
Mohammadreza Afrasyabi ◽  
Parviz Ashtari

Abstract Silica nanoparticles (SNPs) are known as intrinsic radiolabeling agents and offer a fast and reliable approach to deliver theranostic agents into targeted organs. Radiolabeled amorphous silica nanoparticles are of great interest to radiation oncology communities. In order to improve the performance of these nano materials in cancer diagnosis and treatment, their inherent properties, such as surface area and the ability to accumulate in cancer cells, should be enhanced. Pyridine functionalized mesoporous silica MCM-41 is known as a potential anticancer-drug delivery system with high suface area. In thiswork, in order to produce an image-guided drug delivery system for diagnostic applications, [68Ga] radionuclide was grafted on pyridine functionalized MCM-41. The nanoparticles were assessed with atomic force microscopy (AFM), paper chromatography, X-ray diffraction, FTIR spectroscopy, CHN and TGA/DTA analyses. The pharmacokinetic profile evaluation of the radiolabeled nano silica, [68Ga]-Py-Butyl@MCM-41, was done in Fibrosarcoma tumor-bearing mice. This labeled nanocomposite with appropriate blood circulation in body, high structural stability, high tumor/blood ID/g% ratio and fast excretion from the body can be proposed as an efficient nano engineered composite for upcoming tumor targeting/imaging nanotechnology-based applications.


Nanoscale ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 6304-6310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuxia Tang ◽  
Hao Hu ◽  
Molly Gu Zhang ◽  
Jibin Song ◽  
Liming Nie ◽  
...  

A photoresponsive drug delivery system was developed for light-mediated drug release and aptamer-targeted cancer therapy.


Author(s):  
Saritha Chukka

ABSTRACT Objective: The present study involves preparation and evaluation of floating tablets of ritonavir for improving the drug bioavailability by prolongation of gastric residence time.Ritonavir is an antiretroviral agent used in treatment of HIV and viral diseases has been taken as a model drug in the present investigation because of its low biological half life (3-5h). Moreover it is primarily absorbed from stomach. Materials and Methods: Ritonavir floating tablets were prepared by the dry granulation technique, using guar gum and xanthan gum as polymers, sodium bicarbonate as effervescent agent, PVP as binding agent, Di calcium phosphate as diluents, Crospovidone as swelling agent and magnesium stearate as lubricant. The prepared tablets were evaluated for various physico-chemical parameters. Results: Drug-excipient interaction studies were conducted by FTIR and DSC. The results suggested that there was no incompatibility between the drug and polymers. The prepared tablets were evaluated for their physical characteristics. All the parameters were within the pharmacopoeial limits.  Further, tablets were also studied for their floating properties and in vitro drug release characteristics. The tablets exhibited controlled and prolonged drug release profiles. The developed formulation was found to be stable. Conclusion: The developed floating tablets of ritonavir exhibit prolonged release upto 12 h, and thus may improve bioavailability and minimize fluctuations in plasma drug concentrations. Key words: Ritonavir, floating tablets, gastric residence time, gastroretentive drug delivery system 


2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (95) ◽  
pp. 13775-13778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Li-Li Tan ◽  
Xi Li ◽  
Nan Song ◽  
Zheng Li ◽  
...  

A new drug delivery system, based on mesoporous silica nanoparticles gated by carboxylatopillar[5]arene-modified gold nanoparticles, has been fabricated for controlled drug release.


Author(s):  
Sankha Bhattacharya ◽  
Bhupendra G Prajapati

The sustained and comprehensive need in the field of materials having immense thermal, chemical, and mechanical stability lead to the evolution of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs). Due to higher surface area and ridged tuneable particular size, silica-based mesoporous (2-50nm) drug delivery system recently becomes a prime orb for loading different guest molecules such as peptides, proteins, anticancer drugs. The most common type of mesoporous nanoparticles is MCM-41 and SBA-15. MSMs has a wide range of applications in drug delivery, imaging, and catalysis. It was in the 1970’s, when the first patent was field related to MSMs, however during 1990, the full-fledged research started for MSMs. During that era, Mobil Corporation Laboratories, Japan started synthesizing of MSMs. Yet, the University of California also pioneered in MSMs synthesis, as they claimed to prepare 4.6-30 nm MSMs with a hexagonal array of pores; they further named it as SBA-15. MSMs has huge application in drug delivery system. Because of its larger surface area of the pores, the cytotoxin or drug can be filed within the pores like a Trojan Horse. Within the intercellular environment, by the endocytosis process, the small particles will be engulfed by biological cell membranes depending on what ligands attached within MSMs i.e., loaded RNA, loaded DNA, surface protein, PEG, and monoclonal antibody. Surprisingly, advanced research on MSMs concluded that cancerous cells have the tendencies to take MCM-41 than the healthy cells of the host; giving scientists a new hope that MCM-41 will one day be used commercially to treat a certain type of cancers. Modern research also shows that for the poorly water-soluble drug, SBA-15, TUD-1, HMM-33 and FSM-16 of MSMs has tremendous potential to improve in-vitro dissolution profiling i.e., upon loading of itraconazole (a poorly water-soluble drug) within SBA-15, it can able to stimulate GI fluid and facilitate transepithelial intestinal transport which ultimately results in higher drug absorption. In this mini-review, we attempted to discuss MSNs synthesis methods, morphology, preparations, mechanisms and recent research in the MSNs Drug delivery system. Thus, we concluded that more in vivo biocompatibility studies, biodistribution studies, toxicity studies, and clinical research is the fundamental prerequisite for further advancement in mesoporous silica-based nanoparticles (MSNs).     


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 5997-6006
Author(s):  
Yujie Qin ◽  
Xiaoqian Shan ◽  
Yu Han ◽  
Hang Jin ◽  
Ying Gao

Tumor-targeted drug delivery systems represent challenging and widely investigated strategies to enhance cancer chemotherapy. In this study, we introduce a novel high-hydrophilic mesoporous silica nanoparticle system with a pH-sensitive drug release. The resultant composite nanoparticles appear as spheres of uniform size (450±25 nm) with a porous structure, which enables a high drug-loading ratio. Through modification of chitosan and polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether, the modified mesoporous silica was non-toxic to normal cells, but effective at inducing tumor cell death. With regard to the characteristics of drug release, the modified mesoporous silica clearly displayed a pH-stimulated release of the model drug doxorubicin hydrochloride in an acidic phosphate buffer solution (pH 4.0 and 6.0). The release was much greater than that observed in neutral or alkaline phosphate buffer solutions (pH 7.3 and 8.0). Furthermore, the release behavior was in accordance with the Higuchi model, indicating that this modified mesoporous silica drug delivery system can exhibit controlled release. The above results imply that the modified mesoporous silica is an effective drug delivery system for cancer therapy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Stefanache ◽  
Maria Ignat ◽  
Catalina Peptu ◽  
Alina Diaconu ◽  
Iulian Stoleriu ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 6925-6934
Author(s):  
Nam-Kyoung Lee ◽  
Sung Soo Park ◽  
Chang-Sik Ha

In this work, we synthesized a novel pH-triggered drug delivery system to enhance the bioavailability of the anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX) through the gatekeeper poly-L-lysine (PLL) on the pore entrances of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs). Firstly, mesoporous silica was selected as the inorganic support for drug loading. Secondly, PLL was employed as the gatekeeper to control the cargo transport. In a neutral environment, the PLL brushes became shrunken and formed a dense barrier on the pore entrances of PLL/MSNs, which closed the pores and thus prevented the release of cargo. In an acidic environment, the cargo was released from the carrier PLL/MSNs because the pore entrances were opened by the swollen PLL brushes. The DOX-loaded PLL/MSNs (PLL/MSNs-DOX) showed 1.5 times higher drug release under acidic condition (pH = 4) than under neutral condition (pH = 7). During the drug release experiment for 48 h under acidic condition, PLL/MSN-DOX released about 50% of the drug after 9 h and approximately 85% after 24 h, whereas pristine MSNs loaded with DOX (MSNs-DOX) released about 50% of the drug after 30 min and reached equilibrium after 24 h. The MSNs also demonstrated their effectiveness in storing anticancer drugs until the desired environmental trigger is present. Therefore, the pH-responsive MSNs have great potential as a targeting cancer therapy.


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