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摘要
Environmentally responsive hydrogels show enormous potential in various applications, such as tissue engineering and drug delivery. The site-specific controlled drug delivery of hydrogels can improve the therapeutic outcome and minimize the negative side effects. In this work, enzymatically digestible hydrogels, which are composed of equally mixed L-glutamic acid (E) and (L)-lysine (K) polypeptides after being crosslinked by the coupling reaction between carboxyl groups and primary amines catalyzed by 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide center dot HCl (EDC center dot HCl), were prepared to improve the biocompatibility through reducing the nonspecific protein adsorption and cell attachment. Hydrogels loaded with two model drugs, doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX center dot HCl) (positively charged anti-cancer drug) and diclofenac sodium (negatively charged anti-inflammatory drug), showed accelerated complete drug release and full enzymatic degradation in the presence of trypsin, which was reported to be expressed in various carcinomas and inflammations. The drug release also responds to the pH change through tuning charge-charge interaction. These indicated that the prepared hydrogels were promising candidates for drug delivery systems.
