The present disclosure relates to a drug delivery carrier including: (a) a biocompatible polymer; and (b) a hydrophobic group conjugated to the polymer. The drug delivery carrier according to the present disclosure having the hydrophobic group conjugated to the biocompatible polymer may be useful for adsorption of synthetic drugs having very low solubility in water. Further, it may regulate discharge rate of adsorbed drugs by regulating a portion of hydrophobic groups conjugated to the polymeric material. Thus, the present disclosure provides a broad-spectrum platform technology applicable to new hydrophobic synthetic drugs to be developed in the future as well as those that have been developed already but face difficulties due to low bioavailability. The disclosed drug delivery carrier may provide considerable therapeutic convenience for patients by combining stained-release characteristics with the ability for adsorption of a hydrophobic drug having low bioavailability.
The drug delivery carrier according to the present disclosure may also be applied to protein therapeutics. For patent-expired first-generation protein drugs requiring daily or once-in-two-or-three-days injection, the present disclosure improves convenience by allowing second-generation injection formulations that are administered once a week or once or twice a month. As used herein, a "first-generation protein drug" refers to a biomedicine based on a natural protein prepared by a gene recombination technique and a "second-generation protein drug" refers to a biopharmaceutical improvement of a first-generation protein drug through formulation or modification of molecular structure for increasing half-life or extending treatment period through sustained release. The present disclosure provides a strong tool capable of achieving the desired effect simply by mixing with or adsorbing to the drug delivery carrier, unlike known techniques requiring modification or introduction of a special molecular structure to the first-generation or second-generation protein drug. Thus, application of the disclosed drug delivery carrier will shorten development time of next-generation protein drugs and will effectively contribute to increasing use of hydrophobic synthetic drugs. Ultimately, the disclosed drug delivery carrier will be useful for development of competitive new medicines such as sustained-release proteins and synthetic pharmaceuticals.
本公开涉及一种药物输送载体,包括:(a)
生物相容性
聚合物;(b) 与
聚合物共轭的疏
水基团。根据本公开的给药载体,其疏
水基团与
生物相容性
聚合物共轭,可用于吸附在
水中溶解度极低的合成药物。此外,它还可以通过调节与
聚合物材料共轭的部分疏
水基团来调节吸附药物的释放速率。因此,本公开提供了一种广谱平台技术,适用于未来将要开发的新型疏
水性合成药物以及已经开发但由于
生物利用度低而面临困难的药物。本发明公开的给药载体结合了染色释放特性和低
生物利用度疏
水性药物的吸附能力,可为患者提供极大的治疗便利。
本公开的给药载体还可用于蛋白质治疗。对于专利过期的第一代蛋白质药物,需要每天或两天或三天注射一次,而本公开的第二代注射制剂可以每周或每月注射一次或两次,从而提高了方便性。本文所用的 "第一代蛋白质药物 "是指基于
基因重组技术制备的
天然蛋白质的
生物医药,"第二代蛋白质药物 "是指通过配方或分子结构修饰对第一代蛋白质药物进行
生物制药改进,通过持续释放延长半衰期或延长治疗期。与需要对第一代或第二代蛋白质药物进行改性或引入特殊分子结构的已知技术不同,本公开提供了一种强有力的工具,只需与给药载体混合或吸附到给药载体上,就能达到预期效果。因此,公开的给药载体的应用将缩短下一代蛋白质药物的开发时间,并将有效促进疏
水性合成药物的使用。最终,所公开的给药载体将有助于开发具有竞争力的新药,如缓释蛋白质和合成药物。