Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 1048: Ultrasonic Generation of Pulsatile and Sequential Therapeutic Delivery Profiles from Calcium-Crosslinked Alginate Hydrogels
Molecules, Vol. 24, Pages 1048: Ultrasonic Generation of Pulsatile and Sequential Therapeutic Delivery Profiles from Calcium-Crosslinked Alginate Hydrogels
Molecules doi: 10.3390/molecules24061048
Authors:
Tania Emi
Kendra Michaud
Emma Orton
Grace Santilli
Catherine Linh
Meaghan O’Connell
Fatima Issa
Stephen Kennedy
Control over of biological processes can potentially be therapeutically regulated through localized biomolecular deliveries. While implantable hydrogels can provide localized therapeutic deliveries, they do not traditionally provide the temporally complex therapeutic delivery profiles required to regulate complex biological processes. Ionically crosslinked alginate hydrogels have been shown to release encapsulated payloads in response to a remotely applied ultrasonic stimulus, thus potentially enabling more temporally complex therapeutic delivery profiles. However, thorough characterizations of how different types of therapeutic payloads are retained and ultrasonically released need to be performed. Additionally, the impact of potentially disruptive ultrasonic stimulations on hydrogel structure and temperature need to be characterized to better understand what range of ultrasonic signals can be used to trigger release. To perform these characterizations, calcium-crosslinked alginate hydrogels were loaded with various model macromolecules (dextrans), chemotherapeutics, and protein signaling factors and exposed to a variety of single-pulse an...
Source: Molecules - Category: Chemistry Authors: Tania Emi Kendra Michaud Emma Orton Grace Santilli Catherine Linh Meaghan O ’Connell Fatima Issa Stephen Kennedy Tags: Article Source Type: research
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