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Effects of Poloxamers as Excipients on the Physicomechanical Properties, Cellular Biocompatibility, and In Vitro Drug Release of Electrospun Polycaprolactone (PCL) Fibers

Electrospun microfibers are emerging as one of the advanced wound dressing materials for acute and/or chronic wounds, especially with their ability to carry drugs and excipients at a high loading while being able to deliver them in a controlled manner. Various attempts were made to include excipient...

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Autores principales: Faglie, Addison, Emerine, Rachel, Chou, Shih-Feng
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10383550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37514386
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15142997
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author Faglie, Addison
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description Electrospun microfibers are emerging as one of the advanced wound dressing materials for acute and/or chronic wounds, especially with their ability to carry drugs and excipients at a high loading while being able to deliver them in a controlled manner. Various attempts were made to include excipients in electrospun microfibers as wound dressing materials, and one of them is poloxamer, an amphiphilic polymer that exhibits wound debridement characteristics. In this study, we formulated two types of poloxamers (i.e., P188 and P338) at 30% (w/w) loading into electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) fibers to evaluate their physicomechanical properties, biocompatibility, and in vitro drug release of a model drug. Our findings showed that the incorporation of poloxamers in the PCL solutions during electrospinning resulted in a greater “whipping” process for a larger fiber deposition area. These fibers were mechanically stiffer and stronger, but less ductile as compared to the PCL control fibers. The incorporation of poloxamers into electrospun PCL fibers reduced the surface hydrophobicity of fibers according to our water contact angle studies and in vitro degradation studies. The fibers’ mechanical properties returned to those of the PCL control groups after “dumping” the poloxamers. Moreover, poloxamer-loaded PCL fibers accelerated the in vitro release of the model drug due to surface wettability. These poloxamer-loaded PCL fibers were biocompatible, as validated by MTT assays using A549 cells. Overall, we demonstrated the ability to achieve a high loading of poloxamers in electrospun fibers for wound dressing applications. This work provided the basic scientific understanding of materials science and bioengineering with an emphasis on the engineering applications of advanced wound dressings.
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spelling pubmed-103835502023-07-30 Effects of Poloxamers as Excipients on the Physicomechanical Properties, Cellular Biocompatibility, and In Vitro Drug Release of Electrospun Polycaprolactone (PCL) Fibers Faglie, Addison Emerine, Rachel Chou, Shih-Feng Polymers (Basel) Article Electrospun microfibers are emerging as one of the advanced wound dressing materials for acute and/or chronic wounds, especially with their ability to carry drugs and excipients at a high loading while being able to deliver them in a controlled manner. Various attempts were made to include excipients in electrospun microfibers as wound dressing materials, and one of them is poloxamer, an amphiphilic polymer that exhibits wound debridement characteristics. In this study, we formulated two types of poloxamers (i.e., P188 and P338) at 30% (w/w) loading into electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) fibers to evaluate their physicomechanical properties, biocompatibility, and in vitro drug release of a model drug. Our findings showed that the incorporation of poloxamers in the PCL solutions during electrospinning resulted in a greater “whipping” process for a larger fiber deposition area. These fibers were mechanically stiffer and stronger, but less ductile as compared to the PCL control fibers. The incorporation of poloxamers into electrospun PCL fibers reduced the surface hydrophobicity of fibers according to our water contact angle studies and in vitro degradation studies. The fibers’ mechanical properties returned to those of the PCL control groups after “dumping” the poloxamers. Moreover, poloxamer-loaded PCL fibers accelerated the in vitro release of the model drug due to surface wettability. These poloxamer-loaded PCL fibers were biocompatible, as validated by MTT assays using A549 cells. Overall, we demonstrated the ability to achieve a high loading of poloxamers in electrospun fibers for wound dressing applications. This work provided the basic scientific understanding of materials science and bioengineering with an emphasis on the engineering applications of advanced wound dressings. MDPI 2023-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10383550/ /pubmed/37514386 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15142997 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Effects of Poloxamers as Excipients on the Physicomechanical Properties, Cellular Biocompatibility, and In Vitro Drug Release of Electrospun Polycaprolactone (PCL) Fibers
title_full Effects of Poloxamers as Excipients on the Physicomechanical Properties, Cellular Biocompatibility, and In Vitro Drug Release of Electrospun Polycaprolactone (PCL) Fibers
title_fullStr Effects of Poloxamers as Excipients on the Physicomechanical Properties, Cellular Biocompatibility, and In Vitro Drug Release of Electrospun Polycaprolactone (PCL) Fibers
title_full_unstemmed Effects of Poloxamers as Excipients on the Physicomechanical Properties, Cellular Biocompatibility, and In Vitro Drug Release of Electrospun Polycaprolactone (PCL) Fibers
title_short Effects of Poloxamers as Excipients on the Physicomechanical Properties, Cellular Biocompatibility, and In Vitro Drug Release of Electrospun Polycaprolactone (PCL) Fibers
title_sort effects of poloxamers as excipients on the physicomechanical properties, cellular biocompatibility, and in vitro drug release of electrospun polycaprolactone (pcl) fibers
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10383550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37514386
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15142997
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