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Research Article

Construction and cellular uptake behavior of redox-sensitive docetaxel prodrug-loaded liposomes

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Pages 22-32 | Received 05 Apr 2016, Accepted 18 Dec 2016, Published online: 20 Feb 2017
 

Abstract

A redox-responsive docetaxel (DTX) prodrug consisting of a disulfide linkage between DTX and vitamin E (DTX-SS-VE) was synthesized in our laboratory and was successfully formulated into liposomes. The aim of this study was to optimize the formulation and investigate the cellular uptake of DTX prodrug-loaded liposomes (DPLs). The content of DTX-SS-VE was determined by ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC). The formulation and process were optimized using entrapment efficiency (EE), drug-loading (DL), particle size and polydispersity index (PDI) as the evaluation indices. The optimal formulation was as follows: drug/lipid ratio of 1:12, cholesterol/lipid ratio of 1:10, hydration temperature of 40 °C, sonication power and time of 400 W and 5 min. The EE, DL and particle size of the optimized DPLs were 97.60 ± 0.03%, 7.09 ± 0.22% and 93.06 ± 0.72 nm, respectively. DPLs had good dilution stability under the physiological conditions over 24 h. In addition, DPLs were found to enter tumor cells via different pathways and released DTX from the prodrug to induce apoptosis. Taken together, the optimized formulation and process were found to be a simple, stable and applicable method for the preparation of DPLs that could successfully escape from lysosomes.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Nature Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (No. 2014020079), the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 81273450) and the General Project in Education Department of Liaoning Province (No. L2014396).

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of this article. The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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Funding

This research was supported by the Nature Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (No. 2014020079), the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 81273450) and the General Project in Education Department of Liaoning Province (No. L2014396).

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