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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2020

A New Long-Term Composite Drug Delivery System Based on Thermo-Responsive Hydrogel and Nanoclay.

Cezar Tipa, Maria T Cidade, Tânia Vieira, Jorge Carvalho Silva, Paula I P Soares, João Paulo Borges

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Cezar TipaCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-6185-1958
Maria T CidadeCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-8261-6754
Tânia VieiraCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
Jorge Carvalho SilvaCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-9959-4272
Paula I P SoaresCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
João Paulo BorgesCENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-3996-6545

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia PTDC/CTM-CTM/30623/2017Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UID/CTM/50025/2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several problems and limitations faced in the treatment of many diseases can be overcome by using controlled drug delivery systems (DDS), where the active compound is transported to the target site, minimizing undesirable side effects. In situ-forming hydrogels that can be injected as viscous liquids and jellify under physiological conditions and biocompatible clay nanoparticles have been used in DDS development. In this work, polymer-clay composites based on Pluronics (F127 and F68) and nanoclays were developed, aiming at a biocompatible and injectable system for long-term controlled delivery of methylene blue (MB) as a model drug. MB release from the systems produced was carried out at 37 °C in a pH 7.4 medium. The Pluronic formulation selected (F127/F68 18/2 wt.%) displayed a sol/gel transition at approx. 30 °C, needing a 2.5 N force to be injected at 25 °C. The addition of 2 wt.% of Na116 clay decreased the sol/gel transition to 28 °C and significantly enhanced its viscoelastic modulus. The most suitable DDS for long-term application was the Na116-MB hybrid from which, after 15 days, only 3% of the encapsulated MB was released. The system developed in this work proved to be injectable, with a long-term drug delivery profile up to 45 days.

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biomaterialsinjectable hydrogelslong-term drug deliverynanoclay

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PMID33374282
PMCPMC7824189

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