Sborník abstraktů 2010 - Fakulta chemická - Vysoké učení technické ...
Sborník abstraktů 2010 - Fakulta chemická - Vysoké učení technické ...
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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)