高分子药用控释及缓释载体材料特点及在高血压治疗中的应用

Propertiesof sustained-release and controlled-release polymeric materials and application in the treatment of hypertension

BACKGROUND: Polymeric material, an important carrier used in the sustained-release and controlled-release system, is a major factor influencing drug efficacy; so understanding of different carrier materials contributes to obtain an ideal control-released effect. OBJECTIVE: To clarify the characters of medical polymeric materials, and analyze their application in the sustained-release and controlled-release system in the treatment of hypertension. METHODS: An online research was performed in databases of PubMed and WanFang for relative literatures published from 2006 to 2015 using the keywords of “polymers; sustained-release material; controlled-release material; chitosan; cyclodextrin; ilk fibroin; poly acid anhydride; polylactic acid” in Chinese and English, respectively. Totally 30 literatures were enrolled for analysis based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Analyzing the application tendency of sustained-release and controlled-release system in the treatment of hypertension was conducted by retrieving WanFang database between 2010 and 2015 in China. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Polymeric materials used for release carriers should be non-toxic or low toxic and hold good biocompatibility and biodegradability, including natural polymeric materials (polysaccharides and proteins) and synthetic polymeric materials (polylactic acids, polyanhydrides, polypeptides and amino acids). These new polymeric materials overcome some shortcomings of the single material and expand the range of controlled-release carriers showing a light application prospect. Studies on the sustained-release and controlled-release system have achieved satisfactory outcomes, but questions of efficiency, speed-control and intelligentization remain to be resolved. The number of literatures related to the application of sustained-release and controlled-release system in the treatment of hypertension in WanFang database between 2010 and 2015 are increased gradually, suggesting that the sustained-release and controlled-release drugs have become popular in the hypertension treatment. Nifedipine sustained-release or control-release tablets, felodipin sustained-release tablets and metoprolol sustained-release tablets are commonly used.