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Synthesis of thiolated, PEGylated and POZylated silica nanoparticles and evaluation of their retention on rat intestinal mucosa in vitro

Ways, T. M. M., Lau, W. M., Ng, K. W. and Khutoryanskiy, V. V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7221-2630 (2018) Synthesis of thiolated, PEGylated and POZylated silica nanoparticles and evaluation of their retention on rat intestinal mucosa in vitro. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 122. pp. 230-238. ISSN 0928-0987

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2018.06.032

Abstract/Summary

In this study, we synthesised thiolated silica nanoparticles using 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane and functionalised them with either 5 kDa methoxy polyethylene glycol maleimide (PEG) or 5 kDa alkyne-terminated poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) (POZ). The main objectives of this study are to investigate the effects of pH on the size and ξ-potential of these nanoparticles and evaluate their mucoadhesive properties ex vivo using rat intestinal mucosa. The sizes of thiolated, PEGylated and POZylated silica nanoparticles were 53 ± 1, 68 ± 1 and 59 ± 1 nm, respectively. The size of both thiolated and POZylated nanoparticles significantly increased at pH ≤ 2, whereas no size change was observed at pH 2.5–9 for both these two types of nanoparticles. On the other hand, the size of PEGylated nanoparticles did not change over the studied pH range (1.5–9). Moreover, thiolated nanoparticles were more mucoadhesive in the rat small intestine than both PEGylated and POZylated nanoparticles. After 12 cycles of washing (with a total of 20 mL of phosphate buffer solution pH 6.8), a significantly greater amount of thiolated nanoparticles remained on the intestinal mucosa than FITC-dextran (non-mucoadhesive polymer, p < 0.005) and both PEGylated and POZylated nanoparticles (p < 0.05 both). However, both PEGylated and POZylated nanoparticles showed similar retention to FITC-dextran (p > 0.1 for both). Thus, this study indicates that thiolated nanoparticles are mucoadhesive, whereas PEGylated and POZylated nanoparticles are non-mucoadhesive in the ex vivo rat intestinal mucosa model. Each of these nanoparticles has potential applications in mucosal drug delivery.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > School of Pharmacy > Pharmaceutics Research Group
ID Code:78444
Publisher:Elsevier

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