FATE OF N-(2-HYDROXYPROPYL)METHACRYLAMIDE COPOLYMERS WITH PENDENT GALACTOSAMINE RESIDUES AFTER INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION TO RATS
FATE OF N-(2-HYDROXYPROPYL)METHACRYLAMIDE COPOLYMERS WITH PENDENT GALACTOSAMINE RESIDUES AFTER INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION TO RATS
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DOI:
10.1016/0304-4165(86)90120-0
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发表时间:
1986-01-15
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KOPECEK, J
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DUNCAN, R;SEYMOUR, LCW;KOPECEK, J
N-(2-Hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) copolymers bearing galactosamine residues accumulate in the liver after intravenous administration to rats (Duncan, R., Kopecek, J., Rejmanova, P. and Lloyd, J. B. (1983) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 755, 518-521). In this study HPMA copolymers bearing pendent galactosamine residues (1.0-11.6 mol%) were injected intravenously into rats and their rates of blood clearance and liver accumulation were measured. A level of substitution of 4 mol% was found to be sufficient to cause substantial deposition in the liver 30 min after administration. The most highly substituted polymer (11.6 mol%) was directed rapidly to the liver, 80-90% being recovered there less than 10 min after administration. Separation of liver into hepatocytes and non-parenchymal cells indicated that polymer was largely associated with the hepatocytes, and density-gradient subcellular fractionation of liver at various times after administration confirmed that polymer was internalized by liver cells and transported, with time, into the secondary lysosomes. Experiments using isolated rat hepatocytes indicated that HPMA copolymers with high galactosamine and in addition glycylglycyltyrosinamide side-chains were used to demonstrate release of a drug analogue across the lysosomal membrane. These polymers were radioiodinated and, following intravenous administration to rats, the liver lysomes were isolated and incubated at 37.degree. C in 0.25 M sucrose. Radioactivity was released from the lysomes faster than the lysosomal enzyme arylsulphatase, an observation that indicates intralysosomal hydrolysis of the copolymer side-chain with subsequent passage of low molecular weight degradation product across the lysosomal membrane.