TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bertz, Andreas
A1  - Wöhl-Bruhn, Stefanie
A1  - Miethe, Sebastian
A1  - Tiersch, Brigitte
A1  - Koetz, Joachim
A1  - Hust, Michael
A1  - Bunjes, Heike
A1  - Menzel, Henning
T1  - Encapsulation of proteins in hydrogel carrier systems for controlled drug delivery influence of network structure and drug size on release rate
JF  - Journal of biotechnology
N2  - Novel hydrogels based on hydroxyethyl starch modified with polyethylene glycol methacrylate (HES-P(EG)(6)MA) were developed as delivery system for the controlled release of proteins. Since the drug release behavior is supposed to be related to the pore structure of the hydrogel network the pore sizes were determined by cryo-SEM, which is a mild technique for imaging on a nanometer scale. The results showed a decreasing pore size and an increase in pore homogeneity with increasing polymer concentration. Furthermore, the mesh sizes of the hydrogels were calculated based on swelling data. Pore and mesh size were significantly different which indicates that both structures are present in the hydrogel. The resulting structural model was correlated with release data for bulk hydrogel cylinders loaded with FITC-dextran and hydrogel microspheres loaded with FITC-IgG and FITC-dextran of different molecular size. The initial release depended much on the relation between hydrodynamic diameter and pore size while the long term release of the incorporated substances was predominantly controlled by degradation of the network of the much smaller meshes.
KW  - Hydrogel
KW  - Hydrogel microspheres
KW  - Network structure
KW  - Release studies
KW  - Protein delivery
KW  - Mesh size
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2012.06.036
SN  - 0168-1656
VL  - 163
IS  - 2
SP  - 243
EP  - 249
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhong, Qi
A1  - Adelsberger, Joseph
A1  - Niedermeier, M. A.
A1  - Golosova, Anastasi
A1  - Bivigou Koumba, Achille Mayelle
A1  - Laschewsky, André
A1  - Funari, S. S.
A1  - Papadakis, Christine M.
A1  - Müller-Buschbaum, Peter
T1  - The influence of selective solvents on the transition behavior of poly(styrene-b-monomethoxydiethylenglycol-acrylate-b-styrene) thick films
JF  - Colloid and polymer science : official journal of the Kolloid-Gesellschaft
N2  - Thick poly(styrene-b-monomethoxydiethylenglycol-acrylate-b-styrene) [P(S-b-MDEGA-b-S)] films (thickness 5 mu m) are prepared from different solvents on flexible substrates by solution casting and investigated with small-angle X-ray scattering. As the solvents are either PS- or PMDEGA-selective, micelles with different core-shell micellar structures are formed. In PMDEGA-selective solvents, the PS block is the core and PMDEGA is the shell, whereas in PS-selective solvents, the order is reversed. After exposing the films to liquid D2O, the micellar structure inside the films prepared from PMDEGA-selective solvents remains unchanged and only the PMDEGA (shell part) swells. On the contrary, in the films prepared from PS-selective solvents, the micelles revert the core and the shell. This reversal causes more entanglements of the PMDEGA chains between the micelles. Moreover, the thermal collapse transition of the PMDEGA block in liquid D2O is significantly broadened. Irrespective of the solvent used for film preparation, the swollen PMDEGA shell does not show a prominent shrinkage when passing the phase transition, and the transition process occurs via compaction. The collapsed micelles have a tendency to densely pack above the transition temperature.
KW  - Hydrogel
KW  - Thin film
KW  - Thermo-responsive
KW  - LCST behavior
KW  - SAXS
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-012-2879-4
SN  - 0303-402X
VL  - 291
IS  - 6
SP  - 1439
EP  - 1451
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -