申请人:BROWN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
公开号:EP1518550A2
公开(公告)日:2005-03-30
Bioadhesive polymers in the form of, or as a coating on, microcapsules containing drugs or bioactive substances which may serve for therapeutic, or diagnostic purposes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, are described. The polymeric microspheres all have a bioadhesive force of at least 11 mN/cm2 (110 N/m2). Techniques for the fabrication of bioadhesive microspheres, as well as a method for measuring bioadhesive forces between microspheres and selected segments of the gastrointestinal tract in vitro are also described. The quantitative method provides a means to establish a correlation between the chemical nature, the surface morphology and the dimensions of drug-loaded microspheres on one hand and bioadhesive forces on the other, allowing the screening of the most promising materials from a relatively large group of natural and synthetic polymers which, from theoretical consideration, should be used for making bioadhesive microspheres.
本文描述了生物粘性聚合物以微胶囊的形式或作为微胶囊的涂层,微胶囊中含有可用于治疗或诊断胃肠道疾病的药物或生物活性物质。所有聚合物微球的生物粘附力至少为 11 mN/cm2(110 N/m2)。此外,还介绍了生物黏附微球的制造技术,以及在体外测量微球与所选胃肠道片段之间生物黏附力的方法。这种定量方法提供了一种手段,可以在载药微球的化学性质、表面形态和尺寸与生物粘附力之间建立联系,从而从相对较多的天然和合成聚合物中筛选出最有前途的材料,从理论上考虑,这些材料应被用于制造生物粘附微球。