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An amphiphilic nanocarrier based on guar gum-graft-poly(epsilon-caprolactone) for potential drug-delivery applications

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Title An amphiphilic nanocarrier based on guar gum-graft-poly(epsilon-caprolactone) for potential drug-delivery applications
 
Creator Tiwari, A
Prabaharan, M.
 
Subject Biophysics
Materials Science
 
Description Amphiphilic guar gum grafted with poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (GG-g-PCL) was fabricated as a drug-delivery carrier using microwave irradiation. The structure of the GG-g-PCL co-polymer was characterized by (1)H-NMR spectroscopy. By microwave irradiation, GG-g-PCL with high grafting percentage (>200%) was obtained in a short reaction time. The GG-g-PCL co-polymer is capable of self-assembling into nanosized spherical micelles in aqueous solution with the diameter of around 75-135 nm and 60-100 nm, as determined by DLS and TEM, respectively. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of GG-g-PCL was found to be approx. 0.56 mg/l in a phosphate buffer solution. The drug-release profile showed that the GG-g-PCL micelles provided an initial burst release followed by a sustained release of the entrapped hydrophobic model drug, ketoprofen, over a period of 10-68 h. Under physiological conditions, the GG-g-PCL co-polymer hydrolytically degraded into lower-molecular-weight fragments within a 7-week period. These results suggest that the GG-g-PCL micelles could be used as a nanocarrier for in vitro controlled drug delivery.
 
Publisher Brill online
 
Date 2009-05-11
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://npl.csircentral.net/20/1/11.pdf
Tiwari, A and Prabaharan, M. (2009) An amphiphilic nanocarrier based on guar gum-graft-poly(epsilon-caprolactone) for potential drug-delivery applications. Journal of Biomaterials Science, 21 (6). pp. 937-949. ISSN 0920-5063
 
Relation http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20482994
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