| Literature DB >> 26953516 |
Hyung Woo Choi1, Jihoon Kim1, Jinhwan Kim2, Yonghwi Kim1, Hyun Beom Song3, Jeong Hun Kim3, Kimoon Kim1,2, Won Jong Kim1,2.
Abstract
We report herein the design of a light-responsive gatekeeper for smart nitric oxide (NO) delivery. The gatekeeper is composed of a pH-jump reagent as an intermediary of stimulus and a calcium phosphate (CaP) coating as a shielding layer for NO release. The light irradiation and subsequent acid generation are used as triggers for uncapping the gatekeeper and releasing NO. The acids generated from a light-activated pH-jump agent loaded in the mesoporous nanoparticles accelerated the degradation of the CaP-coating layers on the nanoparticles, facilitating the light-responsive NO release from diazeniumdiolate by exposing a NO donor to physiological conditions. Using the combination of the pH-jump reagent and CaP coating, we successfully developed a light-responsive gatekeeper system for spatiotemporal-controlled NO delivery.Entities:
Keywords: calcium phosphate; corneal wound healing; gatekeeper; nitric oxide delivery; pH-jump reagent
Year: 2016 PMID: 26953516 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07483
Source DB: PubMed Journal: ACS Nano ISSN: 1936-0851 Impact factor: 15.881