Objective
Drug targeting using polymeric microspheres injected into the blood circulated could have considerable impact in many disease conditions, especially cancer chemotherapy. The project aims to develop novel biodegradable polymeric coating agents based upon polyesters, polyamines and polyethers that will be absorbed or grafted to drug-loaded microspheres.
Drug targeting using polymeric microspheres injected into the blood circulation could have considerable impact in many disease conditions, especially cancer chemotherapy. The project aims to develop novel biodegradable polymeric coating agents based upon polyesters, polyamines and polyethers that will be absorbed or grafted to drug loaded microspheres. The chosen polymer will cause particles injected into the blood to remain in the circulation (and thus to avoid deposition at undesired sites such as the resident macrophages in liver) or to be targeted passively to the bone marrow. Coated particles carrying attached homing moieties in the form of sugar residues or monoclonal antibodies will be developed for active targeting opportunities.
Biodegradable and bioresorbable polymers suitable for the coating of preformed carrier particles have been synthesised. They include polylactide, polycoglycolide, polymalic acid derivatives, poly L-lysine citramide and modified polyamidoamines.
Emulsification techniques have been used for the preparation of polylactide, polycoglycolide and albumin microspheres of sizes of 100nm and 1000nm.
Biodegradation studies on related particle samples have commenced, and chemical procedures for the coupling of polyoxyethylene groups onto linear serum albumin have been developed.
Diagnostic secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) spectra of coating polymers and particles have been obtained as background to the surface analysis of coated systems.
The chosen polymer will cause particles injected into the blood to remain in the circulation (and thus to avoid deposition at undesired sites such as the resident acrophages in liver) or to be targeted passively to the bone marrow. Coated particles carrying attached homing moieties in the form of sugar residues or monoclonal antibodies will be developed for active targeting opportunities.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
- natural sciences physical sciences optics spectroscopy
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
United Kingdom
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