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ArticleMesoporous biomaterials2014

Low pressure mediated enhancement of nanoparticle and macromolecule loading into porous silicon structures.

Fransisca Leonard, Katrin Margulis-Goshen, Xuewu Liu, Srimeenakshi Srinivasan, Shlomo Magdassi, Biana Godin

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Article in Mesoporous biomaterials, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors.

Fransisca LeonardHouston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Katrin Margulis-GoshenCasali Institute of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The He-brew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Xuewu LiuHouston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Srimeenakshi SrinivasanHouston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Shlomo MagdassiCasali Institute of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The He-brew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Biana GodinHouston Methodist Research Institute, 6670 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Funding

Texas Center for Cancer NanomedicineU54CA151668 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI FERRARI, MAURO · 2010 to 2014
$12.4M
TRANS-NETWORK PROJECTSU54CA143837 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI FERRARI, MAURO · 2009 to 2014
$10.8M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA143837NCI NIH HHS U54 CA151668
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ensuring drug loading efficiency and consistency is one of the most critical stages in engineering drug delivery vectors based on porous materials. Here we propose a technique to significantly enhance the efficiency of loading by employing simple and widely available methods: applying low pressure with and without centrifugation. Our results point toward the advantages the proposed method over the passive loading, especially where the size difference of loaded materials and the pore size of the porous silicon particles is smaller, an increase up to 20-fold can be observed. The technique described in the study can be used for efficient and reproducible loading of porous materials with therapeutic molecules, nanoparticles and contrast imaging agents for biomedical application.

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PMCPMC4254795

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