| Autor: |
Passos Gibson V; Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada., Nunes JBB; Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada., Falcao DQ; Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada.; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Aplicadas a Produtos para Saúde, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rua Doutor Mário Viana 523, Santa Rosa, Niterói, 24241-000, Brazil., Roullin VG; Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada., Leblond Chain J; Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada. jeanne.leblond-chain@inserm.fr.; Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, INSERM, ARNA, UMR 5320, U1212, F-33000, Bordeaux, France. jeanne.leblond-chain@inserm.fr. |
| Abstrakt: |
Chitosan-based carriers have coined their position as delivery agents. When assembled with polyanions into nanogels (NG), these vectors have enabled the delivery of drugs, genes, and proteins to a myriad of applications. However, the chemical and colloidal instability of chitosan nanoformulations in physiologically compatible media prejudices in vitro biocompatibility and, thus, scale-up applications. To overcome this issue, we envisaged the coating of chitosan nanogel with phospholipids. In this investigation, we report a two-stage synthesis of hybrid lipid-coated chitosan nanogels, named nanolipogels (NLG), to improve colloidal stability and in vitro biocompatibility over chitosan NG. Practically, we employed a mixing platform to first prepare chitosan NG by ionic gelation, dilute the suspension, and, in a second stage, coat the NG with lipids. We demonstrate that lipid coating increased particle size and reversed the ζ-potential to negative values, suggesting the successful formation of NLG, while maintaining a homogeneous size distribution (PDI < 0.25). Furthermore, multiple light scattering analysis confirmed NLG improved colloidal stability in phosphate buffer saline and cell culture medium, with respect to NG. Finally, lipid coating completely abrogated the cytotoxicity of NG when incubated at 50 μg·mL -1 with HeLa, U87, or b.End3 cell lines and significantly improved the biocompatibility at 100 and 150 μg·mL -1 . Future investigations will explore how the lipid coating affects drug loading, release profile, and the ability of NLG to deliver drugs and genes in vitro. |
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