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Self-assembled nanoparticles based on linoleic-acid modified carboxymethyl-chitosan as carrier of adriamycin (ADR)

  • Chenguang Liu
  • , Wenwen Fan
  • , Xiguang Chen
  • , Chengsheng Liu
  • , Xianghong Meng
  • , Hyun Jin Park

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    Abstract

    Linoleic-acid (LA) is covalently conjugated to carboxymethyl-chitosan via a 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyyl)-carbodiimide-mediated (EDC-mediated) reaction to generate self-aggregated chitosan nanoparticles by sonication. The average diameter of the particles is 417.8 nm, with a size range from 222.8 nm to 1028 nm. Adriamycin (ADR) can be physically entrapped into the self-aggregates. The drug loading experiments indicate that the loading capacity and efficiency increase with increasing concentration of ADR. ADR is slowly released from chitosan self-aggregates for about 3 days. Furthermore, the effects of drug controlled release become more obvious on increasing the pH value.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)e125-e129
    JournalCurrent Applied Physics
    Volume7
    Issue numberSUPPL.1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007 Apr

    Keywords

    • Adriamycin
    • Carboxymethyl-chitosan
    • Linoleic-acid
    • Nanoparticles

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Materials Science
    • General Physics and Astronomy

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