TY - JOUR
T1 - Preparation and characterization of a microencapsulated polyethylene glycol cross-linked polyhemoglobin
AU - Knirsch, Marcos C.
AU - Dell’Anno, Filippo
AU - Chicoma, Dennis
AU - Stephano, Marco Antonio
AU - Bou-Chacra, Nádia A.
AU - Palombo, Domenico
AU - Converti, Attilio
AU - Polakiewicz, Bronislaw
PY - 2015/8/28
Y1 - 2015/8/28
N2 - Many complications are associated to the therapeutic use of blood, among which are not only transfusion adverse events but also other issues such as lack of donors and high costs for collecting, testing, preserving, and distributing blood packages. Therefore, a clinically viable “blood substitute” is considered the holy grail of traumatology and may greatly benefit medicine. One of the most successful approaches to date is conjugating hemoglobin with polyethylene glycol (PEG). This conjugation aims mainly at overcoming free cell hemoglobin toxicity, which makes its use as oxygen carrier in pure form unfeasible. To improve PEG-hemoglobin conjugates feasibility, we propose applying dual functional PEG cross-linking hemoglobin molecules encapsulated by a protein carrier. The new oxygen carrier showed mean values of the hydrodynamic diameter, dispersity, and zeta potential of 1370 nm, 0.029 and −36 mV, respectively, evidencing the successful synthesis of PEG bis(N-succinimidyl succinate) and polyhemoglobin as well as the structuring of protein carrier.
AB - Many complications are associated to the therapeutic use of blood, among which are not only transfusion adverse events but also other issues such as lack of donors and high costs for collecting, testing, preserving, and distributing blood packages. Therefore, a clinically viable “blood substitute” is considered the holy grail of traumatology and may greatly benefit medicine. One of the most successful approaches to date is conjugating hemoglobin with polyethylene glycol (PEG). This conjugation aims mainly at overcoming free cell hemoglobin toxicity, which makes its use as oxygen carrier in pure form unfeasible. To improve PEG-hemoglobin conjugates feasibility, we propose applying dual functional PEG cross-linking hemoglobin molecules encapsulated by a protein carrier. The new oxygen carrier showed mean values of the hydrodynamic diameter, dispersity, and zeta potential of 1370 nm, 0.029 and −36 mV, respectively, evidencing the successful synthesis of PEG bis(N-succinimidyl succinate) and polyhemoglobin as well as the structuring of protein carrier.
KW - Gelatin
KW - Microparticle
KW - Oxygen carrier
KW - Polyethylene glycol
KW - Polyhemoglobin
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U2 - 10.1007/s00449-015-1463-y
DO - 10.1007/s00449-015-1463-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 26314399
AN - SCOPUS:85027937586
VL - 38
JO - Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
JF - Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering
SN - 1615-7591
IS - 11
ER -