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Title: | Polyamidoamine Nanoparticles for the Oral Administration of Antimalarial Drugs |
Author: | Martí Coma-Cros, Elisabet Biosca, Arnau Marques, Joana Carol, Laura Urbán, Patricia Berenguer, Diana Riera Lizandra, Ma. Cristina Delves, Michael Sinden, Robert E. Valle Delgado, Juan José Spanos, Lefteris Siden-Kiamos, Inga Pérez, Paula Paaijmans, Krijn P. Rottmann, Matthias Manfredi, Amedea Ferruti, Paolo Ranucci, Elisabetta Fernàndez Busquets, Xavier |
Keywords: | Malària Medicaments Nanopartícules Malaria Drugs Nanoparticles |
Issue Date: | 10-Nov-2018 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Abstract: | Current strategies for the mass administration of antimalarial drugs demand oral formulations to target the asexual Plasmodium stages in the peripheral bloodstream, whereas recommendations for future interventions stress the importance of also targeting the transmission stages of the parasite as it passes between humans and mosquitoes. Orally administered polyamidoamine (PAA) nanoparticles conjugated to chloroquine reached the blood circulation and cured Plasmodium yoelii-infected mice, slightly improving the activity of the free drug and inducing in the animals immunity against malaria. Liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry analysis of affinity chromatography-purified PAA ligands suggested a high adhesiveness of PAAs to Plasmodium falciparum proteins, which might be the mechanism responsible for the preferential binding of PAAs to Plasmodium-infected erythrocytes vs. non-infected red blood cells. The weak antimalarial activity of some PAAs was found to operate through inhibition of parasite invasion, whereas the observed polymer intake by macrophages indicated a potential of PAAs for the treatment of certain coinfections such as Plasmodium and Leishmania. When fluorescein-labeled PAAs were fed to females of the malaria mosquito vectors Anopheles atroparvus and Anopheles gambiae, persistent fluorescence was observed in the midgut and in other insect's tissues. These results present PAAs as a versatile platform for the encapsulation of orally administered antimalarial drugs and for direct administration of antimalarials to mosquitoes, targeting mosquito stages of Plasmodium |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics10040225 |
It is part of: | Pharmaceutics, 2018, vol. 10, num. 4, p. 225 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/133998 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics10040225 |
ISSN: | 1999-4923 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal) Articles publicats en revistes (Biologia, Sanitat i Medi Ambient) Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC)) |
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