title: Effects of pulmonary surfactant system on rifampicin release from rifampicin-loaded PLGA microspheres.
abstract: Pulmonary surfactants little affected the release ratio of rifampicin from rifampicin-loaded poly(lactide-co-glycolide) PLGA microspheres. The release ratio of rifampicin was depending on pH of pulmonary surfactant solution, showing that rifampicin-loaded PLGA microspheres have an ideal property to deliver rifampicin into alveolar macrophages inside of which Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli reside and to kill them. That is, little amount of rifampicin is released in alveolar lining liquid before the microspheres are phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages, then rifampicin is released in phagosome or cytoplasm, but little amount of rifampicin is released in lysosome of alveolar macrophages after the microspheres are internalized. Pulmonary surfactants also little affected the changes in molecular weight of residual PLGA during its hydrolytic degradation process. From the electrophoretic mobility measurements of PLGA microspheres, it was shown that pulmonary surfactants changed the surface charge density of PLGA microspheres by adsorbing on their surfaces.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki Noda Chiba 278-8510, Japan.
authors.forename: Keishiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tomoda
authors.forename: Sayaka
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kojima
authors.forename: Megumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kajimoto
authors.forename: Daisuke
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Takehisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: Kimiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Makino
mesh_terms: D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000737:chemistry*; D016676:Macrophages, Alveolar / Q000737:chemistry; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008863:Microspheres; D011100:Polyglycolic Acid / Q000737:chemistry*; D000077182:Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants / Q000737:chemistry*; D012293:Rifampin / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants; D000077182:Polylactic Acid-Polyglycolic Acid Copolymer; D011100:Polyglycolic Acid; D019344:Lactic Acid; D012293:Rifampin