(2016) Novel pH-sensitive hydrogels for 5-aminosalicylic acid colon targeting delivery: invivo study with ulcerative colitis targeting therapy in mice, Drug Delivery, 23:6, 1926-1932, DOI: 10.3109/10717544.2014 The Central Hospital of Xi' an Huashan, Xi' an, China
AbstractCurrent guidelines recommend patients with active and mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis (UC), who have received initial therapy with 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA). In this study, a novel drug delivery vehicle achieved by pH-sensitive hydrogels was applied to 5-ASA. In our previous work, a novel P(CE-MAA-MEG) pH-sensitive hydrogel was successfully synthesized by the heatinitiated free radical polymerization method. The aim of this study is to investigate its sitespecific delivering of drugs to the colon and evaluate its colon-targeting characteristic in vivo. 5-ASA was chosen as a model drug and successfully loaded in the hydrogel. In vitro investigations were carried out to evaluate its release process. Above all, animal treatment results reveal an obvious effect on the UC healing. Therefore, all results suggested that the developed 5-ASA-P(CE-MAA-MEG) hydrogel (5-ASA-GEL) as a colon-targeting vector might have a great potential application in the UC therapy.