scholarly journals INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORK MATRICES FOR CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY OF PROPRANOLOL HCL USING POLYMERS LOCUST’S BEAN GUM, GELUCIRE AND SODIUM ALGINATE: A MINI REVIEW

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 3197
Author(s):  
Younghyun Shin ◽  
Dajung Kim ◽  
Yiluo Hu ◽  
Yohan Kim ◽  
In Ki Hong ◽  
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Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)-based hydrogels are generally superabsorbent and biocompatible, but their low mechanical strength limits their application. To overcome these drawbacks, we used bacterial succinoglycan (SG), a biocompatible natural polysaccharide, as a double crosslinking strategy to produce novel interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogels in a non-bead form. These new SG/CMC-based IPN hydrogels significantly increased the mechanical strength while maintaining the characteristic superabsorbent property of CMC-based hydrogels. The SG/CMC gels exhibited an 8.5-fold improvement in compressive stress and up to a 6.5-fold higher storage modulus (G′) at the same strain compared to the CMC alone gels. Furthermore, SG/CMC gels not only showed pH-controlled drug release for 5-fluorouracil but also did not show any cytotoxicity to HEK-293 cells. This suggests that SG/CMC hydrogels could be used as future biomedical biomaterials for drug delivery.


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