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Thirupathi Reddy Yerramreddy1, Mikolaj Milewski, Narsimha Reddy Penthala, Audra L Stinchcomb, Peter A Crooks.
Abstract
A small library of novel 3-O-pegylated carboxylate prodrugs (4a-4b) and 3-O-pegylated carbamate prodrugs (9a-9b) of naltrexone were synthesized. The goal behind the design of these prodrugs was to investigate their potential for microneedle-enhanced transdermal delivery. All the synthesized 3-O-pegylated carboxylate prodrugs (4a-4b) and 3-O-pegylated carbamate prodrugs (9a-9b) of naltrexone were found to have adequate stability in a transdermal formulation and improved apparent solubility compared to naltrexone. Viscosity effects were postulated to be responsible for the observed non-linearity in the flux-concentration profile of these prodrugs. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20451376 PMCID: PMC3726000 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.04.049
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bioorg Med Chem Lett ISSN: 0960-894X Impact factor: 2.823