| Akihiro Kishimura | Last modified date：2024.04.16 |
Associate Professor /
Department of Applied Chemistry /
Faculty of Engineering
Reports
| 1. | An emerging material “PICsome”: A hot zone between “PEG” and “PEG” Recently, nanomaterials constructed by molecular self-assembly have gathered much attention to develop nano-devices incorporated with many types of drugs. Particularly, hollow capsules are one of promising materials, and recently, we have developed polyion complex vesicles, PICsomes, as novel polymeric vesicles. The most advantageous feature of PICsomes is its simple preparation process: Typically, they can be prepared by simple mixing of oppositely charged block copolymers consisting of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and charged poly(amino acid)s in an aqueous medium. Moreover, many other unique properties of PICsomes have been reported, such as facile tuning of vesicle sizes ranging from 100–400 nm while keeping monodispersed size distribution, semipermeable vesicle membrane, facile loading of various water-dispersed materials, long blood circulation after crosslinking, excellent tumor accumulation based on the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect, and so on. The present review article describes basic design and synthetic strategy of PICsomes, fundamental properties of PICsomes, and recent applications of PICsomes to drug delivery system.. |
| 2. | Akihiro Kishimura, Horacio Cabral, Kanjiro MIyata, Nanodevices for studying nano-pathophysiology, Advanced Drug Delivery reviews, DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2014.06.003, 2014.06, Nano-scaled devices are a promising platform for specific detection of pathological targets, facilitating the anal- ysis of biological tissues in real-time, while improving the diagnostic approaches and the efficacy of therapies. Herein, we review nanodevice approaches, including liposomes, nanoparticles and polymeric nanoassemblies, such as polymeric micelles and vesicles, which can precisely control their structure and functions for specifically interacting with cells and tissues. These systems have been successfully used for the selective delivery of reporter and therapeutic agents to specific tissues with controlled cellular and subcellular targeting of biomolecules and programmed operation inside the body, suggesting a high potential for developing the analysis for nano- pathophysiology.. |
| 3. | Akihiro Kishimura, Development of polyion complex vesicles (PICsomes) from block copolymers for biomedical applications, Polymer Journal, 2013.04, [URL], Polyion complex (PIC) formation is one of the most powerful techniques for obtaining molecular self-assemblies in aqueous media. The simple preparation process based on multiple electrostatic interactions is quite attractive for material syntheses, as well as biomedical applications. Therefore, it is desirable to control PIC architectures at the nanoscale in order to expand the scope of PIC materials. In this review article, recent progress on PIC vesicles (PICsomes) is summarized. PICsomes were first developed by my research group, and we recently succeeded in controlling the sizes and structural uniformity of the vesicles. Furthermore, the characteristic dynamic nature of PICs was revealed: PICs were found to exhibit reversible association/ dissociation and structural transformation. We demonstrated that crosslinking the PIC layers of PICsomes is a powerful method for tuning properties such as stability and permeability. Finally, the potential utility of PICsomes for drug delivery nanocarriers was examined, and their future biomedical application is discussed.. |
| 4. | Development and Biomedical Applications of Polymeric Hollow Capsules “PICsomes” Possessing Semipermeable Polyion Complex Membrane. |
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