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Water-dispersed bone morphogenetic protein nanospheres prepared by co-precipitation method |
JIANG Bing-bing, GAO Chang-you, HU Ling, SHEN Jia-cong |
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China |
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Abstract A modified complex coacervation-co-precipitation method was used to prepare bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-loaded nanospheres. Three natural polymers were used as packing materials to obtain nanoscale delivery device for BMP, in the presence of phosphatidylcholine functioning as stabilizer. Positively charged polysaccharide, N,N-diethylaminoethyl dextran (DEAE-dextran) tended to form stable, uniform and smaller size particles carrying BMP. Negatively charged bovine serum al-bumin (BSA) induced precipitation of the produced BMP particles due to its weak interaction with BMP molecules, although it produced nanosized BMP spheres. While collagen, a weakly positively charged protein shaped larger particles due to the strong interaction among themselves. A mechanism of co-precipitation process was also deduced to depict the formation of stable nanospheres.
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Received: 28 September 2003
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