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Employing a peptide-based nanoscale drug delivery system is an effective strategy to overcome the poor therapeutic outcomes of chemotherapeutic drugs. Here, we developed a self-assembling peptide-drug delivery system comprising a self-assembling anticancer peptide (R-lycosin-I), as revealed in our previous study, and 10-hydroxycamptothecin (HCPT) for cancer therapy. The results showed that peptide-drug conjugates (R-L-HCPT) could assemble into nanospheres of 40-60 nm in water. Compared with free HCPT, R-L-HCPT nanospheres not only inhibited tumor growth but also suppressed pulmonary metastatic nodules on B16-F10 cells in vivo. In summary, these results indicated that the self-assembling R-lycosin-I could provide a promising nanoscale platform for delivering small-molecule drugs. Moreover, our study might provide new opportunities for the development of a new class of functional peptide-drug-conjugated systems based on nanomaterials, which could synergistically enhance anticancer outcomes.[18F]MC225 has been developed as a weak substrate of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) aimed to measure changes in the P-gp function at the blood-brain barrier with positron emission tomography. This study evaluates [18F]MC225 kinetics in non-human primates and investigates the effect of both scan duration and P-gp inhibition. Three rhesus monkeys underwent two 91-min dynamic scans with blood sampling at baseline and after P-gp inhibition (8 mg/kg tariquidar). Data were analyzed using the 1-tissue compartment model (1-TCM) and 2-tissue compartment model (2-TCM) fits using metabolite-corrected plasma as the input function and for various scan durations (10, 20, 30, 60, and 91 min). The preferred model was chosen according to the Akaike information criterion and the standard errors (%) of the estimated parameters. For the 91-min scan duration, the influx constant K1 increased by 40.7% and the volume of distribution (VT) by 30.4% after P-gp inhibition, while the efflux constant k2 did not change significantly. Similar changes were found for all evaluated scan durations. K1 did not depend on scan duration (10 min-K1 = 0.2191 vs 91 min-K1 = 0.2258), while VT and k2 did. A scan duration of 10 min seems sufficient to properly evaluate the P-gp function using K1 obtained with 1-TCM. For the 91-min scan, VT and K1 can be estimated with a 2-TCM, and both parameters can be used to assess P-gp function.Due to the cell affinity of chitosan (CS) and the hydrophilicity of polyethylene oxide (PEO), CS/PEO composited nanofiber meshes (NFMs) have been extensively used as wound healing dressings for skin tissue regeneration. Nonetheless, numerous innate drawbacks of the NFM system such as the use of toxic spinning solvents and cross-linkers, moderate water regain capacity, and lack of triggered release function significantly hampered their biomedical applications. In order to enhance their performances in promoting cell growth and preventing bacterial infection, highly swelling cross-linked N-maleoyl-functional chitosan (MCS)/PEO NFMs have been developed as the next-generation CS/PEO NFM system through an acid-free electrospinning process and a UV-irradiated cross-linked treatment without the use of aldehyde-containing cross-linkers. With the simultaneous introduction of ethylene oxide chains and disulfide bonds in the cross-linkages, this new NFM system displays enhanced swelling capability, antibacterial ability, triggered antibiotic release, and high biocompatibility. These biomedical merits enable the new NFM systems to be utilized as tissue scaffolds, especially for functional wound healing dressings.The stability of biologically produced pharmaceuticals is the limiting factor to various applications, which can be improved by formulation in solid-state forms, mostly via lyophilization. Knowledge about the protein structure at the molecular level in the solid state and its transition upon rehydration is however scarce, and yet it most likely affects the physical and chemical stability of the biological drug. In this work, synchrotron small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SWAXS) are used to characterize the structure of a model protein, lysozyme, in the solid state and its structural transition upon rehydration to the liquid state. The results show that the protein undergoes distortion upon drying to adopt structures that can continuously fill the space to remove the protein-air interface that may be formed upon dehydration. Above a hydration threshold of 35 wt %, the native structure of the protein is recovered. The evolution of SWAXS peaks as a function of water content in a broad range of concentrations is discussed in relation to the structural changes in the protein. UBCS039 The findings presented here can be used for the design and optimization of solid-state formulations of proteins with improved stability.The absence of an intestinal absorption sink is a significant weakness of standard in vitro lipolysis methods, potentially leading to poor prediction of in vivo performance and an overestimation of drug precipitation. In addition, the majority of the described lipolysis methods only attempt to simulate intestinal conditions, thus overlooking any supersaturation or precipitation of ionizable drugs as they transition from the acidic gastric environment to the more neutral conditions of the intestine. The aim of this study was to develop a novel lipolysis method incorporating a two-stage gastric-to-intestinal transition and an absorptive compartment to reliably predict in vivo performance of lipid-based formulations (LBFs). Drug absorption was mimicked by in situ quantification of drug partitioning into a decanol layer. The method was used to characterize LBFs from four studies described in the literature, involving three model drugs (i.e., nilotinib, fenofibrate, and danazol) where in vivo bioavailability data r throughput capacity and biorelevant approach for characterization of LBFs.Due to the abnormal tumor vasculature and dense stroma, there is limited tumor perfusion in the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME). In order to reshape tumor blood vessels and enhance the penetration of anticancer drugs into the tumor tissue, an anionic liposome nanosystem with a "sandwich" structure was prepared. The chemotherapeutic agent topotecan (TPT) was encapsulated in the lipid hydrophilic layer, and the sensitizer indocyanine green (ICG) was loaded into the hydrophobic layer. In addition, the positively charged vascular normalization drug erlotinib (ERL) was adsorbed to the outermost layer of the microenvironment. The nanosystem showed superior tumor permeability invitro/in vivo experiments compared with the ERL-treated group. The nanosystem entered the tumor through normalization of blood vessels after the action of ERL. Ultrasound treatment improves the vascular permeability, allowing the nanoparticles to penetrate blood vessels and reach tumor cells. Finally, in addition to cytotoxic effects, TPT can also down-regulate the expression of HIF-1α and so prolong the vascular normalization time.
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