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ArticleBiomolecules2021

The Effect of Drug Heterogeneous Distributions within Core-Sheath Nanostructures on Its Sustained Release Profiles.

Haixia Xu, Xizi Xu, Siyu Li, Wen-Liang Song, Deng-Guang Yu, S W Annie Bligh

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Article in Biomolecules, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Haixia XuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
Xizi XuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
Siyu LiSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
Wen-Liang SongSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.
Deng-Guang YuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7825-4498
S W Annie BlighSchool of Health Sciences, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong 999077, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4757-2159

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sustained release of a water-soluble drug is always a key and important issue in pharmaceutics. In this study, using cellulose acetate (CA) as a biomacromolecular matrix, core-sheath nanofibers were developed for providing a sustained release of a model drug-metformin hydrochloride (MET). The core-sheath nanofibers were fabricated using modified tri-axial electrospinning, in which a detachable homemade spinneret was explored. A process-nanostructure-performance relationship was demonstrated through a series of characterizations. The prepared nanofibers F2 could release 95% of the loaded MET through a time period of 23.4 h and had no initial burst effect. The successful sustained release performances of MET can be attributed to the following factors: (1) the reasonable application of insoluble CA as the filament-forming carrier, which determined that the drug was released through a diffusion manner; (2) the core-sheath nanostructure provided the possibility of both encapsulating the drug completely and realizing the heterogeneous distributions of MET in the nanofibers with a higher drug load core than the sheath; (3) the thickness of the sheath sections were able to be exploited for further manipulating a better drug extended release performance. The mechanisms for manipulating the drug sustained release behaviors are proposed. The present proof-of-concept protocols can pave a new way to develop many novel biomolecule-based nanostructures for extending the release of water-soluble drugs.

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Drug LiberationCelluloseDelayed-Action PreparationsDrug CarriersDrug CompoundingKineticsMetforminNanofibersNanostructuresSolubilitySolventsSpectroscopy, Fourier Transform InfraredWaterX-Ray DiffractionacetylcelluloseCelluloseDelayed-Action PreparationsDrug CarriersMetforminSolventsWatercellulose acetatecore–sheath structuresmetformin hydrochloridesustained releasetriaxial electrospinningwater-soluble drug

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PMID34572545
PMCPMC8469915

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