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ArticleDrug delivery2022

Multi-fractal modeling of curcumin release mechanism from polymeric nanomicelles.

Camelia E Iurciuc Tincu, Marcel Popa, Leonard I Atanase, Ovidiu Popa, Lacramioara Ochiuz, Paraschiva Postolache, Vlad Ghizdovat, Stefan A Irimiciuc, Maricel Agop, Constantin Volovat and 1 more

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Camelia E Iurciuc TincuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iaşi, Romania.
Marcel PopaDepartment of Natural and Synthetic Polymers, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Protection of the Environment, Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University, Iaşi, Romania.
Leonard I AtanaseAcademy of Romanian Scientists, Bucharest, Romania.
Ovidiu PopaDepartment of Emergency Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania.
Lacramioara OchiuzDepartment of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnological Drug Industry, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania.
Paraschiva Postolache1st Medical Department, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania.
Vlad GhizdovatDepartment of Biophysics and Medical Physics, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Iasi, Romania.
Stefan A IrimiciucNational Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Bucharest, Romania.
Maricel AgopAcademy of Romanian Scientists, Bucharest, Romania.
Constantin VolovatDepartment of Medical Oncology Radiotherapy, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Iasi, Romania.
Simona VolovatDepartment of Medical Oncology Radiotherapy, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Iasi, Romania.

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Abstract

The physicochemical properties of "smart" or stimuli-sensitive amphiphilic copolymers can be modeled as a function of their environment. In special, pH-sensitive copolymers have practical applications in the biomedical field as drug delivery systems. Interactions between the structural units of any polymer-drug system imply mutual constraints at various scale resolutions and the nonlinearity is accepted as one of the most fundamental properties. The release kinetics, as a function of pH, of a model active principle, i.e., Curcumin, from nanomicelles obtained from amphiphilic pH-sensitive poly(2-vinylpyridine)-b-poly(ethylene oxide) (P2VP-b-PEO) tailor-made diblock copolymers was firstly studied by using the Rietger-Peppas equation. The value of the exponential coefficient, n, is around 0.5, generally suggesting a diffusion process, slightly disturbed in some cases. Moreover, the evaluation of the polymer-drug system's nonstationary dynamics was caried out through harmonic mapping from the usual space to the hyperbolic one. The kinetic model we developed, based on fractal theory, fits very well with the experimental data obtained for the release of Curcumin from the amphiphilic copolymer micelles in which it was encapsulated. This model is a variant of the classical kinetic models based on the formal kinetics of the process.

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CurcuminFractalsMicellesPolyethylene GlycolsPolymersCurcuminMicellesPolyethylene GlycolsPolymersamphiphilic copolymersdrug release kineticsfractal modelmicelles

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PMCPMC9448400

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