Issue 36, 2018

Poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine)-based biodegradable nanogels for controlled drug release

Abstract

Stimulus responsive nanogels have great potential in the application of drug delivery. In this work, biodegradable zwitterionic poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine) (PMPC) nanogels were fabricated by the reflux precipitation polymerization, which was clean and convenient for the application of drug delivery. The hydrodynamic size of the obtained PMPC nanogels was below 200 nm with a narrow size distribution (polydispersity index below 0.1). Moreover, the nanogels showed excellent protein adsorption resistance and remained stable at high concentrations of salt. Furthermore, the PMPC nanogels exhibited redox-responsive performance, and the degradation rate of the nanogels increased as the concentration of glutathione and the pH value increased. In addition, the nanogels could be fully disrupted into short linear polymers (Mw = 2000 g mol−1) after 24 h degradation. The doxorubicin-loaded nanogels showed low drug leakage under physiological conditions (below 15% in 24 h), while they presented rapid drug release in a reduction environment (above 80% in 24 h). The cell cytotoxicity assays revealed that the blank zwitterionic nanogels were nontoxic to the human lung adenocarcinoma epithelial cells (A549 cells) even at high concentrations (1 mg mL−1), while the DOX-loaded nanogels showed efficient inhibition to the tumor cells.

Graphical abstract: Poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine)-based biodegradable nanogels for controlled drug release

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Jun 2018
Accepted
05 Aug 2018
First published
06 Aug 2018

Polym. Chem., 2018,9, 4556-4565

Poly(2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine)-based biodegradable nanogels for controlled drug release

R. Xie, Y. Tian, S. Peng, L. Zhang, Y. Men and W. Yang, Polym. Chem., 2018, 9, 4556 DOI: 10.1039/C8PY00948A

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