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Preparation and Characterization of Individual and Multi-drug Loaded Physically Entrapped Polymeric Micelles
Published on: August 28, 2015
Drug delivery systems: water soluble taxol 2'-poly(ethylene glycol) ester prodrugs-design and in vivo effectiveness
R B Greenwald1, C W Gilbert, A Pendri
1Enzon Inc, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-3969, USA.
Abstract:
Water soluble 2'-taxol poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) esters have been synthesized and shown to function in vitro as prodrugs. However, in vivo experiments clearly establish that in order for these prodrugs to behave in a predictable fashion, the molecular weight of PEG must be of such magnitude so as to maintain a t1/2(circulation) > t1/2(hydrolysis). When PEG derivatives of molecular weight approximately 40 kDa were employed with paclitaxel, ca. 4% by weight of paclitaxel was carried by the water soluble prodrug form, and equivalent in vivo toxicity and increased life expectancy in the P388-treated mouse was observed. An effective method for prescreening prodrugs was found to be the acute murine lethality, which reflects the equivalency of the solubilized transport form and the native drug.
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