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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2016
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN;
Wing Fu Lai, Aberdeen, HK;
Ho Cheung Shum, Kowloon, HK;
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, Hong Kong, CN;
Abstract
Described herein is a drug delivery system, which is based on a novel polymer namely hypromellose-graft-chitosan (HC), useful to deliver a drug to a patient in sustained and controlled release fashion. HC is highly water soluble across the pH range from 1.2 to 10, and has a high pH buffering capacity to provide a pH-stable environment for drug delivery. In addition, the drug delivery system provided herein exhibited a drug loading efficiency of over 90% in all drugs tested, which is 1-2 fold higher than the efficiency attainable by conventional chitosan, and achieved a 2-3 fold longer duration of sustained drug release.