新型药物递送系统研发格局分析

药物递送是通过特定的手段使活性药物成分有效地递送到目的部位,以在人类或动物中实现治疗效果的方法或过程。递送系统在控速给药、靶向给药、药物稳定性、生物相容性等方面具有重要的作用。近年来,随着药学、材料学和生物医学等相关领域的进步,从纳米尺度、细胞尺度到智能靶向递送等技术的发展使药物递送系统领域发生了巨大变化,新型药物递送系统的研究投入和市场份额持续快速增长。通过对不同载药系统的递送机制及特点进行阐述,系统梳理新兴药物递送系统技术的主要研究进展及企业竞争格局,并对相关技术的临床转化潜力和应用前景进行展望,为相关企业研发方向选择及决策提供参考。     

细胞/细菌驱动的药物递送系统研究进展

细胞/细菌驱动的药物传递系统是一种有前景的药物递送策略. 该策略将具有不同优异特性的活细胞/细菌与药物有机结合,能够有效克服传统纳米药物生物利用率低、靶向性能弱、组织穿透性不强等缺陷. 得益于对目标病灶特异响应,这类药物递送系统不仅能够实现药物高效的主动靶向递送,还可以降低对正常组织的毒副作用,目前已成功运用于药物呈递,在疾病诊断和治疗领域展示了广阔的应用前景. 本文初步探讨了细胞/细菌驱动的药物递送系统的研究进展,并对其未来研究进行展望.     

基于凋亡小体的药物递送系统研究进展

凋亡小体是一类由凋亡细胞释放的细胞外囊泡,由于具有良好的载药功能以及优异的靶向能力,凋亡小体被认为是一种具有潜力的药物递送载体。本文首先概述了凋亡小体的形成机制,然后总结了近年来基于凋亡小体的药物递送系统的相关研究,包括完整凋亡小体药物递送系统、重组凋亡小体药物递送系统、原位生成的凋亡小体药物递送系统以及类凋亡小体仿生药物递送系统,最后对凋亡小体在药物递送领域所面临的挑战和潜在解决策略进行了展望。     

细菌衍生物载体在肿瘤治疗中的研究进展

细菌载体是当前纳米载药系统研究的热点,其具有粒径小、靶向性能强、可装载化学药物和核酸药物的能力并且易于制备的特点。以活菌作为载体,容易引起生物体免疫反应,存在潜在的安全问题。通过基因工程技术和生物工程技术,可以获得低免疫原性和低毒性的细菌衍生物,并使其具有一定的靶向功能,能够用作载体来递送具有治疗作用的药物至肿瘤靶组织或靶细胞,这引起研究者的广泛关注。本文中,笔者选择3种常见的细菌衍生物——细菌外膜囊泡、细菌原生质体和微细胞这3种细菌衍生物载体在肿瘤治疗中的研究进展进行综述,以期为肿瘤治疗中药物递送系统的构建提供借鉴。     

细菌小细胞在癌症治疗中的应用

癌症一直是危害人类健康的主要疾病之一。传统的癌症治疗方法包括放疗、化疗和手术,均具有明显的毒副作用或局限性。脂质体和纳米颗粒作为被广泛研究的药物递送载体,在人体临床试验中也出现了药物渗漏和装载功能不全等问题。目前而言,应用具有肿瘤靶向性的载体递送抗肿瘤药物或小分子,是有希望介导安全、有效的肿瘤治疗的策略之一。近年来,细菌来源的非复制型小细胞已受到越来越多的关注。小细胞是细菌异常分裂时期产生的纳米级无核细胞,其直径为200–400 nm,因而具有较大的药物装载能力。对小细胞的表面进行修饰,例如,装配能与肿瘤细胞表面特异性抗原或受体结合的抗体/配体,可显著提高小细胞的肿瘤靶向性。这种具有靶向性的纳米材料能将抗肿瘤的化疗药物、功能性核酸或编码功能性小分子的质粒靶向递送至肿瘤,而减少药物在正常组织器官的集聚。因此,使用小细胞作为靶向递送载体有助于降低药物对机体的毒性,从而最大限度地发挥药物分子在体内的抗肿瘤活性。文中将对小细胞的产生与纯化、药物装载、肿瘤细胞靶向性、内化过程以及其用于递送抗肿瘤药物的研究进展等方面进行综述,为开发基于小细胞的癌症治疗策略提供一定的参考。     

纳米药物递送系统在基于化疗的联合治疗中的研究进展

肿瘤是一种病理过程复杂的疾病。大多数肿瘤患者接受化疗和放疗，但这些治疗通常只对部分有效，并产生各种严重的副作用。因此，有必要开发新的治疗策略。联合治疗是目前肿瘤治疗的热点，联合用药引起的多种协同作用是提高抗肿瘤活性的关键。纳米药物递送系统的出现对临床治疗产生了深远的影响。药物的体内递送常不能达到令人满意的治疗效果，而纳米药物递送系统可以实现肿瘤靶向给药，在提高抗肿瘤效果的同时降低药物的毒副作用。本文介绍了多种基于化疗的联合治疗方法，重点阐述了纳米药物递送系统在基于化疗的联合治疗中的运用，并对该领域面临的挑战和未来发展方向进行了展望。     

脂质体递药系统的靶向修饰

作为药物递送载体，脂质体（LPs）由于免疫原性低、稳定性好、毒性低和成本低而被认为是有前途的纳米药物递送系统。然而，LPs的靶向递送效果并不理想，往往会对正常的机体细胞造成伤害，因此，如何优化LPs药物，使其具有靶向性仍然是当前研究的重点。本文结合近年来国内外相关研究进展，重点介绍了多肽、抗体、糖类、配体，以及核酸适配体等靶向修饰物对LPs功能的影响，并归纳总结了各种靶向修饰目前存在的优势与挑战，以期对LPs给药系统的进一步研究提供科学参考及新药研发提供理论依据。     

脂质体在抗癌药物给药系统中的研究和应用

癌症,是现今威胁人类健康的一大杀手,目前常规的治疗手段之一是予以大剂量的化疗药物进行治疗。但大多数抗癌药物因具有广泛而强烈的细胞毒性,在杀伤癌细胞的同时也无选择性的杀伤了正常人体细胞,使得患者在接受治疗的同时承受了较大的痛苦,降低了癌症患者的生存质量。因而在药剂学研究中,须以提高药效、增强靶向性及降低毒副作用等为目标,合理地选择和开发抗癌药物给药系统。自脂质体作为新型药物传递技术引入癌症治疗以来,因其独特的理化性质和递药机理,高效低毒地递送抗癌药物至病灶,因而成为现今抗癌药物给药系统研究中的热点。本文结合国内外的相关资料和最新报道,综述了脂质体抗癌药物的递药优势、研究进展与存在的问题,并在分析了产业化现状的基础上,对这一新型给药系统在抗癌药物递送领域中的发展做一展望。     

浅析纳米载体靶向药物递送系统:误区、壁垒与对策

纳米载体靶向药物递送系统早已受到各国的广泛关注,虽然这一研究方向的论文发表量呈指数增加,却基本没有成药性.本文基于物理化学和生物学原理分析,通过对不同材料和粒径纳米载体扩散系数的实验研究,探讨分子与纳米粒子在水介质中依数性和扩散能力的差异、纳米载体在体内的寻靶过程,从根本上剖析了纳米载体靶向药物递送系统理论中存在的种种误区,揭示了主动靶向修饰的纳米载体并不能够按照载体设计的初衷提高对肿瘤组织的靶向效率的缺陷.证明EPR效应只适用于药物分子与具有足够扩散能力的纳米载体,并提出依靠环境特异性响应的靶向释药、提高纳米载体扩散能力、利用巨噬细胞固有的吞噬作用捕获NPs实现靶向药物递送以及逐级靶向等更具有可行性的靶向递送新策略.     

聚乙二醇-聚乳酸嵌段共聚物在药物递送系统中的应用

聚乙二醇-聚乳酸嵌段共聚物具备良好的生物相容性和生物可降解性,是良好的纳米级药物载体。嵌段共聚物具有载药能力强、粒径小、体内循环时间长、主动靶向性和被动靶向性等特点,因此在药物递送系统中得到广泛应用。简要介绍了聚乙二醇-聚乳酸嵌段共聚物的合成和性质,及其作为脂质体、胶束、微球等载体在药物递送系统中的最新进展。     

Oral bioavailability and drug/carrier particulate systems

The oral route remains the preferred route of administration to ensure patient satisfaction and compliance. However, new chemical entities may exhibit low bioavailability after oral administration because of poor stability within the gastrointestinal tract, poor solubility in gastrointestinal fluids, low mucosal permeability, and/or extensive first-pass metabolism. Consequently, these new drug substances cannot be further developed using conventional oral formulations. This issue is addressed by an innovative approach based on the entrapment of drug molecules in drug/carrier assembling systems. The carrier materials are lipids, naturally occurring polymers or synthetic polymers, which are considered as nontoxic and biocompatible materials. Drug entrapment is intended to protect drug substances against degradation by gastrointestinal fluids. Fine drug/carrier particle size ensures increased drug dissolution rates. Carriers and particle supramolecular organization can be designed to enhance drug absorption through the intestinal epithelium and lymphatic transport. Promising preclinical results have been obtained with model drugs like paclitaxel, insulin, calcitonin, or cyclosporin. Attention has focused on mucoadhesive carriers like chitosan that favor an intimate and extended contact between drugs and intestinal cells, thus enhancing absorption. Addition of ligands such as lectins improves intestinal drug absorption through specific binding of the carrier to intestinal cell carbohydrates. In conclusion, drug/carrier particulate systems are an attractive and exciting drug delivery strategy for highly potent drug substances unsuitable for oral use. Further evidence will determine whether this approach has marked therapeutic benefits over conventional drug formulations and is compatible with large-scale industrial production and stringent registration requirements. Producing highly effective particulate systems requiring low-complexity manufacturing processes is therefore an ongoing challenge.     

Lymphatic transport of orally administered drugs

Several therapeutic molecules such as lipophilic drugs and peptides suffer from the problems of low oral bioavailability. Improvement of their bioavailability and simultaneous prevention of the oral degradation of the prone molecules appears to be a challenge. Lymphatic system, which is responsible for the maintenance of fluid balance, immunity and metastatic spread of cancers, is also found to play a major role in the oral absorption of lipids and lipophilic drugs from intestine. The specialized structure of gut associated lymphoid tissue can be utilized as a gateway for the delivery of particulate systems containing drugs. Even though a large gap has existed in the field of lymphatic drug delivery, the introduction of a large number of lipophilic drugs and peptides has brought a renewed interest of research in this area. In this review, the mechanisms of intestinal lymphatic drug transport, approaches taken for the delivery of macromolecules, lipophilic and peptide drugs, biochemical barriers involved in intestinal drug absorption, and animal models used in the studies of intestinal lymphatic drug transport has been discussed.     

经皮给药纳米载体及靶向系统治疗类风湿关节炎研究进展

类风湿关节炎(RA)是全世界难治性自身免疫疾病,其治疗药物虽不断发展,但病灶药物浓度达不到有效水平导致药物疗效不理想或存在各种毒副反应,因此,基于新技术、新方法研究开发针对RA的安全、高效新型制剂是必要的。研究表明,纳米技术的运用可提高药物生物利用度,经皮给药可改善口服和注射带来的毒副作用。对近年来基于经皮给药系统治疗RA利用的纳米载体进行综述,并阐述在RA病理特征中运用到的靶向策略,思考透皮制剂的改进方法,探讨新型纳米制剂研究现状及存在的问题,从而为制备新型透皮纳米制剂提供参考。     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">In Vitro</Emphasis> and <Emphasis Type="Italic">Ex Vivo</Emphasis> Evaluations of Lipid Anti-Cancer Nanoformulations: Insights and Assessment of Bioavailability Enhancement

Lipid-based nanoformulations have been extensively investigated for improving oral efficacy of plethora of drugs. Chemotherapeutic agents remain a preferred option for effective management of cancer; however, most chemotherapeutic agents suffer from limitation of poor oral bioavailability that is associated with their physicochemical properties. Drug delivery via lipid-based nanosystems possesses strong rational and potential for improving oral bioavailability of such anti-cancer molecules through various mechanisms, viz. improving their gut solubilisation owing to micellization, improving mucosal permeation, improving lymphatic uptake, inhibiting intestinal metabolism and/or inhibiting P-glycoprotein efflux of molecules in the gastrointestinal tract. Various in vitro characterization techniques have been reported in literature that aid in getting insights into mechanisms of lipid-based nanodevices in improving oral efficacy of anti-cancer drugs. The review focuses on different characterization techniques that can be employed for evaluation of lipid-based nanosystems and their role in effective anti-cancer drug delivery.     

Biopartitioning micellar chromatography: an in vitro technique for predicting human drug absorption

The main oral drug absorption barriers are fluid cell membranes and generally drugs are absorbed by a passive diffusion mechanism. Biopartitioning micellar chromatography (BMC) is a mode of micellar liquid chromatography that uses micellar mobile phases of Brij35 under adequate experimental conditions and can be useful to mimic the drug partitioning process in biological systems. In this paper the usefulness of BMC for predicting oral drug absorption in humans is demonstrated. A hyperbolic model has been obtained using the retention data of a heterogeneous set of 74 compounds, which shows predictive ability for drugs absorbed by passive diffusion. The model obtained in BMC is compared with those obtained using the well-known systems (Caco-2 and TC-7) that use intestinal epithelium cell lines. The use of BMC is simple, reproducible and can provide key information about the transport properties of new compounds during the drug discovery process.     

综述——纳米材料与药物输递：脂质纳米粒在口服给药系统中的应用

脂质纳米粒是由固体脂肪酸或其酯类制成的一类纳米制剂,其生物相容性好、安全性好,所以在药物递送领域受到广泛关注．难溶性药物、多肽及蛋白质药物由于溶解度、跨膜能力以及稳定性等问题,导致口服生物利用度低,而利用脂质纳米粒作为其载体,口服给药后能显著改善药物的生物利用度,这使得脂质纳米粒在口服给药系统中得到了广泛的应用与研究．本文从口服脂质纳米粒的处方、制备工艺、吸收机制以及应用四个方面对其进行了详细的综述．     

A review of advanced oral drug delivery technologies facilitating the protection and absorption of protein and peptide molecules

The oral delivery of proteins and peptides is a dynamic research field despite the numerous challenges limiting their effective delivery. Successful oral delivery of proteins and peptides requires the accomplishment of three key tasks: protection of the macromolecules from degradation in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), permeation through the intestinal barrier and absorption of molecules into the systemic circulation. Currently, no clinically useful oral formulations have been developed but several attempts have been made to overcome the challenges of low oral bioavailability resulting from poor absorption, poor permeation and enzymatic degradation of the proteins and peptides in the GIT. Present strategies attempt to provide structural protection of the proteins and peptides and improved absorption through the use of enzyme inhibitors, absorption enhancers, novel polymeric delivery systems and chemical modification. However, each of these technologies has their limitations despite showing positive results. This review attempts to discuss the physical and chemical barriers of the GIT with particular emphasis on the current approaches employed to overcome these barriers, including the evaluation of other non-parenteral routes of protein and peptide delivery. In addition, this review assimilates oral formulation strategies under development and within the clinical trial stage in relation to their benefits and drawbacks with regard to facilitating optimal protection and absorption of proteins and peptides, as well as pertinent future challenges and opportunities governing oral drug delivery.     

环糊精及其衍生物在多肽/蛋白质类药物非注射给药体系中的应用

目前,多肽/蛋白质类药物多数需要采用注射剂型给药以确保其生物利用度。开发易于给药、病人顺应性高以及治疗费用更低的非注射剂型是非常有意义的。然而,多肽/蛋白质类药物直接进行非注射给药的生物利用度通常非常低,需要制备具有设计功能的载药系统,例如加入不同比例的酶抑制剂、吸收促进剂等以提高生物利用度。环糊精及其衍生物由于其能与客体分子形成包合物的特性,以及对粘膜的促渗透作用等,在多肽/蛋白质药物的非注射给药系统中获得了日益广泛的应用。综述了近年来环糊精及其衍生物在多肽/蛋白质类药物非注射给药体系中的应用情况。     

Transdermal drug delivery

Transdermal drug delivery has made an important contribution to medical practice, but has yet to fully achieve its potential as an alternative to oral delivery and hypodermic injections. First-generation transdermal delivery systems have continued their steady increase in clinical use for delivery of small, lipophilic, low-dose drugs. Second-generation delivery systems using chemical enhancers, noncavitational ultrasound and iontophoresis have also resulted in clinical products; the ability of iontophoresis to control delivery rates in real time provides added functionality. Third-generation delivery systems target their effects to skin's barrier layer of stratum corneum using microneedles, thermal ablation, microdermabrasion, electroporation and cavitational ultrasound. Microneedles and thermal ablation are currently progressing through clinical trials for delivery of macromolecules and vaccines, such as insulin, parathyroid hormone and influenza vaccine. Using these novel second- and third-generation enhancement strategies, transdermal delivery is poised to significantly increase its impact on medicine.     

Investigation of the Cytotoxic Effects of Titanate Nanotubes on Caco-2 Cells

Titanate nanotubes can be used as drug delivery systems, but limited information is available on their interactions with intestinal cells. In this study, we investigated the cytotoxicity and cellular uptake of titanate nanotubes on Caco-2 monolayers and found that up to 5 mg/ml concentration, these nanotubes are not cytotoxic and not able to permeate through the intestinal cell layer. Transmission electron microscopic experiments showed that titanate nanotubes are not taken up by cells, only caused a high-density granulation on the surface of the endoplasmic reticulum. According to these results, titanate nanotubes are suitable systems for intestinal drug delivery.