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Journal Article
Hydrogel drug delivery system with predictable and tunable drug release and degradation rates
2013
Overview
Many drugs and drug candidates are suboptimal because of short duration of action. For example, peptides and proteins often have serum half-lives of only minutes to hours. One solution to this problem involves conjugation to circulating carriers, such as PEG, that retard kidney filtration and hence increase plasma half-life of the attached drug. We recently reported an approach to half-life extension that uses sets of self-cleaving linkers to attach drugs to macromolecular carriers. The linkers undergo β-eliminative cleavage to release the native drug with predictable half-lives ranging from a few hours to over 1 y; however, half-life extension becomes limited by the renal elimination rate of the circulating carrier. An approach to overcoming this constraint is to use noncirculating, biodegradable s.c. implants as drug carriers that are stable throughout the duration of drug release. Here, we use β-eliminative linkers to both tether drugs to and cross-link PEG hydrogels, and demonstrate tunable drug release and hydrogel erosion rates over a very wide range. By using one β-eliminative linker to tether a drug to the hydrogel, and another β-eliminative linker with a longer half-life to control polymer degradation, the system can be coordinated to release the drug before the gel undergoes complete erosion. The practical utility is illustrated by a PEG hydrogel–exenatide conjugate that should allow once-a-month administration, and results indicate that the technology may serve as a generic platform for tunable ultralong half-life extension of potent therapeutics.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences,National Acad Sciences
Subject
/ Drug Carriers - administration & dosage
/ Drug Carriers - pharmacokinetics
/ drugs
/ Esters
/ Gels
/ Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 - agonists
/ Humans
/ Hydrogels - administration & dosage
/ Hydrogels - pharmacokinetics
/ Kidneys
/ Peptides
/ Peptides - administration & dosage
/ Polyethylene Glycols - administration & dosage
/ Polyethylene Glycols - chemistry
/ Polyethylene Glycols - pharmacokinetics
/ Polymers
/ Proteins
