<p>Stimulus-responsive drug delivery nanotechnologies promise noninvasive activation of the right drug at the right place at the right time. However, these systems often incorporate non-validated pharmaceutical excipients and other features that limit their clinical translation. Here we engineer the responsiveness of liposomes to a pulsed, low-intensity ultrasound activating stimulus by incorporating a generally regarded as safe excipient that alters the acoustic properties of the liposome core medium. We show that this approach permits loading and ultrasound-induced release of four drugs in vitro. We then leverage this performance to enable drug-mediated noninvasive neuromodulation of each of the central and the peripheral nervous system in vivo. These acoustically activatable liposomes formulated with common and validated pharmaceutical excipients and production processes provide a versatile system for stimulus-responsive site-targeted drug delivery and noninvasive neuromodulation, with high clinical translation potential.</p>

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Acoustically activatable liposomes as a translational nanotechnology for site-targeted drug delivery and noninvasive neuromodulation

  • Mahaveer P. Purohit,
  • Brenda J. Yu,
  • Kanchan Sinha Roy,
  • Yun Xiang,
  • Sedona N. Ewbank,
  • Matine M. Azadian,
  • Alex R. Hart,
  • Gabriella P. B. Muwanga,
  • Payton J. Martinez,
  • Jeffrey B. Wang,
  • Ali K. Taoube,
  • Eric Markarian,
  • Nicholas Macedo,
  • Audrey K. Kwan,
  • Diego Gomez Lopez,
  • Raag D. Airan

摘要

Stimulus-responsive drug delivery nanotechnologies promise noninvasive activation of the right drug at the right place at the right time. However, these systems often incorporate non-validated pharmaceutical excipients and other features that limit their clinical translation. Here we engineer the responsiveness of liposomes to a pulsed, low-intensity ultrasound activating stimulus by incorporating a generally regarded as safe excipient that alters the acoustic properties of the liposome core medium. We show that this approach permits loading and ultrasound-induced release of four drugs in vitro. We then leverage this performance to enable drug-mediated noninvasive neuromodulation of each of the central and the peripheral nervous system in vivo. These acoustically activatable liposomes formulated with common and validated pharmaceutical excipients and production processes provide a versatile system for stimulus-responsive site-targeted drug delivery and noninvasive neuromodulation, with high clinical translation potential.