Modulating release of ranibizumab and aflibercept from thiolated chitosan-based hydrogels for potential treatment of ocular neovascularization

BACKGROUND: This paper describes the synthesis of thiolated chitosan-based hydrogels with varying degrees of crosslinking that has been utilized to modulate release kinetics of two clinically relevant FDA-approved anti-VEGF protein drugs, ranibizumab and aflibercept. These hydrogels have been fabricated into disc shaped structures for potential use as patches on ocular surface.

METHODS: Protein conformational changes and aggregation after loading and release was evaluated by circular dichroism (CD), steady-state tryptophan fluorescence spectroscopy, electrophoresis and size-exclusion chromatography (SEC). Finally, the capacity of both released proteins to bind to VEGF was tested by ELISA and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technology.

RESULTS: The study demonstrates the versatility of thiolated chitosan-based hydrogels for delivering proteins. The effect of various parameters of the hydrogel on protein release kinetics and mechanism of protein release was studied using the Korsmeyer-Peppas release model. Furthermore, we have studied the stability of released proteins in detail while comparing it with non-entrapped proteins under physiological conditions to understand the effect of formulation conditions on protein stability.

CONCLUSIONS: The disc-shaped thiolated chitosan-based hydrogels provide a potentially useful platform to deliver ranibizumab and aflibercept for the treatments of ocular diseases such as wet AMD, DME and corneal neovascularization.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

Enthalten in:

Expert opinion on drug delivery - 14(2017), 8 vom: 18. Aug., Seite 913-925

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Moreno, Miguel [VerfasserIn]
Pow, Poh Yih [VerfasserIn]
Tabitha, Tan Su Teng [VerfasserIn]
Nirmal, Sonali [VerfasserIn]
Larsson, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Radhakrishnan, Krishna [VerfasserIn]
Nirmal, Jayabalan [VerfasserIn]
Quah, Soo Tng [VerfasserIn]
Geifman Shochat, Susana [VerfasserIn]
Agrawal, Rupesh [VerfasserIn]
Venkatraman, Subbu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

15C2VL427D
9012-76-4
Aflibercept
Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor proteins
Chitosan
EC 2.7.10.1
Hydrogels
Journal Article
Neovascularization
Ranibizumab
Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
Recombinant Fusion Proteins
Release studies
Thiolated chitosan-based hydrogels
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A
ZL1R02VT79

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Date Completed 12.12.2017

Date Revised 02.12.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/17425247.2017.1343297

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM273214489