Abstract
Alendronate (Alen)-modified hydroxyapatite (HAp) nanoparticles with multilayers of poly(allylamine) (PAA) and alginate (ALG) were fabricated for bone-specific dual delivery of drug and mineral. Negatively charged HAp nanoparticles were coated with three layers of PAA and ALG using a layer-by-layer (LbL) method and then conjugated with Alen at the outmost layer of the LbL-coated HAp nanoparticles via carbodiimide chemistry. Alen-modified HAp nanoparticles had a spherical morphology and an average size of 61.5 nm. The superior adsorption property of the Alen-modified HAp nanoparticles was quantitatively confirmed using tricalcium phosphate disks as a bone model, compared to HAp nanoparticles. Cell culture assays revealed a higher proliferation rate and alkaline phosphatase activity of osteoblasts treated with the Alen-modified HAp nanoparticles. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 623-628 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Macromolecular Research |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jul 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016, The Polymer Society of Korea and Springer Sciene+Business Media Dordrecht.
Keywords
- alendronate
- dual targeted delivery
- hydroxyapatite
- layer-by-layer method