PMID- 25687307 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160309 LR - 20181202 IS - 1873-4995 (Electronic) IS - 0168-3659 (Linking) VI - 203 DP - 2015 Apr 10 TI - Determination of polymeric micelles' structural characteristics, and effect of the characteristics on pharmacokinetic behaviors. PG - 77-84 LID - S0168-3659(15)00117-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jconrel.2015.02.017 [doi] AB - We evaluated structural factors characterizing PEG-b-P(Asp-Bzl) micelles including core size, aggregation number (Nagg), and core surface PEG density by means of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), field flow fractionation with multi-angle light scattering (FFF-MALS) analysis, and DLS. Furthermore, we evaluated the stability of PEG-b-P(Asp-Bzl) micelles by means of GPC. This paper reports the correlation between the evaluated micelles' structural factors and the micelles' behaviors including the micelles' in vivo pharmacokinetic behaviors. One micelle PEG(12)-b-P(Asp-Bzl) (PEG=12,000) exhibited a high core surface density (~0.99 chain/nm(2)). In these circumstances, PEG(12)-b-P(Asp-Bzl) micelles exhibited a highly stretched PEG brush form. However, the evaluated core surface PEG densities could not fully explain the micelles' in vivo pharmacokinetic behaviors. In contrast, GPC will become a strong tool for predicting PEG(12)-b-P(Asp-Bzl) micelles' in vivo behaviors, as well as the micelles' in vitro behaviors. The stability results correlated strongly with the area-under-the-curve (AUC) values of PEG-b-P(Asp-Bzl) micelles' in vivo pharmacokinetics. Finally, we evaluated PEG(12)-b-P(Asp-Bzl) micelles' most effective structural factor for determining the micelles' behaviors, and the micelles' outermost shell surface's PEG density (DOS, PEG) correlated with the micelles' behaviors. We revealed that the evaluated DOS, PEG is the most important factor for understanding PEG(12)-b-P(Asp-Bzl) micelles' behaviors. CI - Copyright (c) 2015. Published by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Shiraishi, Kouichi AU - Shiraishi K AD - Medical Engineering Laboratory, Research Center for Medical Sciences, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8 Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan. FAU - Sanada, Yusuke AU - Sanada Y AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Kitakyushu, 1-1 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0135, Japan. FAU - Mochizuki, Shinichi AU - Mochizuki S AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Kitakyushu, 1-1 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0135, Japan. FAU - Kawano, Kumi AU - Kawano K AD - Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, Hoshi University, 2-4-41 Ebara, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan. FAU - Maitani, Yoshie AU - Maitani Y AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Kitakyushu, 1-1 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0135, Japan. FAU - Sakurai, Kazuo AU - Sakurai K AD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Kitakyushu, 1-1 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0135, Japan. Electronic address: sakurai@kitakyu-u.ac.jp. FAU - Yokoyama, Masayuki AU - Yokoyama M AD - Medical Engineering Laboratory, Research Center for Medical Sciences, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8 Nishi-shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan. Electronic address: masajun2093ryo@jikei.ac.jp. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20150214 PL - Netherlands TA - J Control Release JT - Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society JID - 8607908 RN - 0 (Drug Carriers) RN - 0 (Micelles) RN - 30KYC7MIAI (Aspartic Acid) RN - 3WJQ0SDW1A (Polyethylene Glycols) RN - 7D96IR0PPM (pegaspargase) RN - EC 3.5.1.1 (Asparaginase) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Asparaginase MH - Aspartic Acid/chemistry/pharmacokinetics MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Drug Carriers/*chemistry/*pharmacokinetics MH - Esterification MH - Macrophages/*metabolism MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - *Micelles MH - Polyethylene Glycols/*chemistry/*pharmacokinetics MH - Scattering, Small Angle MH - X-Ray Diffraction OTO - NOTNLM OT - Macrophage uptake OT - Outermost shell surface PEG density OT - Polymeric micelle OT - Small-angle X-ray scattering OT - Structural characteristics EDAT- 2015/02/18 06:00 MHDA- 2016/03/10 06:00 CRDT- 2015/02/18 06:00 PHST- 2014/09/01 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/02/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2015/02/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/02/18 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/02/18 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/03/10 06:00 [medline] AID - S0168-3659(15)00117-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jconrel.2015.02.017 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Control Release. 2015 Apr 10;203:77-84. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2015.02.017. Epub 2015 Feb 14.