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Novel Biodegradable Macromonomers<br />

Based on PLGA-PEG-PLGA Copolymer<br />

for Regenerative Medicine<br />

Lenka Michlovská<br />

Lucy Vojtová, Ludmila Mravcová, Josef Jančář<br />

Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry,<br />

Institute of Materials Chemistry,<br />

Purkyňova 118, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic<br />

xcmichlovska@fch.vutbr.cz<br />

Biodegradable thermosensitive poly(D,L-lactic acid-co-glycolic acid)-bpoly(ethylene<br />

glycol)-b-poly(D,L-lactic acid-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA-PEG-PLGA)<br />

triblock copolymers were synthesized via ring opening polymerization. Reaction<br />

kinetics were evaluated in order to found that purification of monomers (lactide<br />

and glycolide) have important effect on copolymer properties such as predicted<br />

molecular weight and narrow polydispersity obtained at high monomer conversion.<br />

PLGA-PEG-PLGA copolymer was subsequently modified in “one pot” by itaconic<br />

anhydride (ITA) in order to functionalize both ends with carboxylic acid<br />

groups and reactive double bonds. Both unmodified copolymer and novel ITA/<br />

PLGA-PEG-PLGA/ITA macromonomers are soluble in water forming free-flowing<br />

solution that spontaneously gels as the temperature increases generating a waterinsoluble<br />

physical hydrogel. Sol-gel transitions of polymers were investigated by<br />

test tube inverting method. Although, the critical gel concentrations of both the<br />

PLGA-PEG-PLGA and ITA-PLGA-PEG-PLGA-ITA aqueous solutions were found<br />

to be equal to 6 wt.% and the critical gel temperature decreased only from 38 °C<br />

to 36 °C by ITA modifying, ITA/PLGA-PEG-PLGA/ITA macromonomers showed<br />

sol-gel diagrams approached more to body temperature (37 °C) make the polymer<br />

useful in biomedicine already from the concentration of 6 wt.%<br />

Novel ITA/PLGA-PEG-PLGA/ITA macromonomers having crosslinkable double<br />

bonds and functional carboxyl groups suitable for coupling with bioactive materials<br />

might be used as injectable resorbable polymers for tissue regeneration.<br />

Keywords: kinetics of polymerization; functionalization; sol-gel transitions;<br />

kinetics of polymerization; functionalization; sol-gel transitions;<br />

biodegradable polymers; poly(ethylene glycol); poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)

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