CN111617267A - Nano-scale ultrasonic contrast agent coated with perfluorocarbon - Google Patents

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CN111617267A
CN111617267A CN202010649043.8A CN202010649043A CN111617267A CN 111617267 A CN111617267 A CN 111617267A CN 202010649043 A CN202010649043 A CN 202010649043A CN 111617267 A CN111617267 A CN 111617267A
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The invention discloses a nano-scale ultrasonic contrast agent coated with perfluorocarbon. The prepared nano-scale ultrasonic contrast agent internally carrying low-boiling-point perfluorocarbon is quickly gasified under the action of body temperature and ultrasonic effect to generate microbubbles, and the microbubbles resonate and scatter ultrasonic signals after receiving ultrasonic energy to achieve the effect of ultrasonic contrast. The ultrasonic contrast agent has the advantages of particle size in a nano-scale range, strong penetrating power, better imaging enhancing capability, good storage stability, high in-vivo ultrasonic stability, excellent biological safety and simple preparation method, is wrapped by multiple layers of phospholipid, can effectively improve the diagnosis and treatment efficiency, and has very high research value and wide application prospect.

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Nano-scale ultrasonic contrast agent coated with perfluorocarbon
Technical Field
The invention relates to an ultrasonic contrast agent for ultrasonic imaging diagnosis and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the field of biomedical materials.
Background
Ultrasonic imaging, which is an imaging technique for disease diagnosis using differences in physical properties of ultrasound and acoustic properties of human organs and tissues, is of particular interest due to its non-invasive, inexpensive, simple to operate, and wide diagnostic applications. The ultrasonic contrast agent is often applied to ultrasonic diagnosis, effectively improves the contrast quality of ultrasonic images, obviously improves the resolution capability of ultrasonic waves on the forms and types of lesion areas, and enhances the sensitivity and specificity of ultrasonic diagnosis.
With the rapid development of the ultrasonic imaging technology and the biological nanometer technology, the development of the nanometer ultrasonic contrast agent is rapid. Compared with the traditional micron-sized ultrasonic contrast agent, the nano-sized ultrasonic contrast agent has small particle size and stronger tissue penetration capability, and can penetrate blood vessels to reach the focus of the tissue more easily. In addition, the nano-scale particles have large surface area and strong adsorption capacity, can be gathered and imaged, can obviously enhance signals in a target area, and reduces background noise.
The shell membrane material of the ultrasonic contrast agent mainly comprises lipid, high molecular polymer, surfactant, inorganic nonmetal and the like. Wherein, the shell layer prepared by the high molecular polymer is hard and has poor elasticity, and is easy to form fragments under ultrasonic explosion or natural erosion to generate non-therapeutic damage; the contrast agent prepared by the surfactant has poor stability and is not easy to modify; inorganic nanoparticle materials are rigid and require high ultrasound output. The lipid material has higher toughness, the shell membrane can form liquid crystal in an aqueous medium, the stability is good, the imaging effect is good, and the material is an ideal shell membrane material of the ultrasonic contrast agent. The bilayer shell membrane prepared by adopting the mixed lipid material has better biocompatibility, better stability and stronger entrapment capability, can better entrap the imaging agent and carry out in vivo delivery, and has very high research value.
Perfluorocarbon is a fluorinated aliphatic compound with a low boiling point, and undergoes liquid-gas phase transformation under the action of body temperature and ultrasonic effect after entering the body to form microbubbles, so that the imaging effect is enhanced. Compared with the direct encapsulated gaseous fluorocarbon, the perfluorocarbon encapsulated contrast agent has better storage stability, longer circulation time in tissues, higher biological safety and capability of resisting external pressure and mechanical stress change more durably, can realize the in-vivo long-acting ultrasonic imaging effect and is more favorable for detecting and observing the focus part.
The nano-scale liposome is adopted to encapsulate the perfluorocarbon, the strong penetrating power of the nano-particles can be utilized to penetrate through vascular endothelial cells to enable the vascular endothelial cells to reach extravascular diseased tissue organs, and the perfluorocarbon is subjected to phase transition to form microbubbles after the ultrasonic action, so that a strong ultrasonic imaging effect is generated; in addition, the formed multilayer phospholipid stabilizing layer can effectively improve the storage stability of the ultrasonic contrast agent, but does not influence the in-vivo ultrasonic responsiveness, and is convenient for clinical use.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provides a perfluorocarbon-coated nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent. The nano-scale ultrasonic contrast agent consists of perfluorocarbon coated by lipid and other effective components. The prepared nano-scale ultrasonic contrast agent has better biocompatibility, stronger penetrating power and longer in-vivo circulation time. The encapsulated perfluorocarbon generates microbubbles through liquid-gas phase transformation under the action of body temperature and ultrasonic effect, and can achieve the effect of enhanced ultrasonic development.
The lipid envelope is composed of one or more lipid materials, such as hydrogenated soybean phospholipids, pegylated phospholipids, cholesterol, and the like, but is not limited to these examples.
The perfluorocarbon is any one of perfluoropentane and perfluorohexane, but is not limited to the illustrative range.
The invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a nano-class ultrasonic contrast agent coated with perfluorocarbon is prepared from hydrogenated soybean phosphatide, PEG phosphatide and cholesterol as lipid through preparing shell membrane, and coating perfluorocarbon in it. The particle size distribution range of the prepared liposome is 80-400 nm, an obvious phospholipid layer can be observed by a transmission electron microscope, the surface is negatively charged, and the absolute value of the potential is about 30 mV.
The preferable perfluorocarbon to be encapsulated in the present invention is any one of perfluoropentane and perfluorohexane.
The preferable lipid material for forming the shell membrane is a mixture of hydrogenated soybean phospholipid, PEG phospholipid and cholesterol, and the mass ratio of the hydrogenated soybean phospholipid, the PEG phospholipid and the cholesterol is 10: 3: 1.
Preferred perfluorocarbons for use in the present invention are added at 1% to 10% (v: v).
The perfluorocarbon encapsulated in the liposome prepared by the invention is gasified to generate microbubbles under the action of body temperature and ultrasonic effect, generates resonance after receiving ultrasonic energy and scatters ultrasonic signals, and has the capability of enhancing imaging.
The preparation method of the perfluorocarbon-loaded nanoscale ultrasonic contrast agent comprises the following steps:
(1) dispersing lipid material hydrogenated soybean phospholipid, PEGylated phospholipid and cholesterol in organic solvent, removing organic solvent by rotary evaporation to obtain film, hydrating with normal saline at 37 deg.C for 30min to obtain lipid vesicle;
(2) taking the lipid vesicle prepared in the step (1), adding perfluorocarbon, and ultrasonically crushing by using a probe to obtain a coarse suspension;
(3) and (3) mixing the crude mixed suspension prepared in the step (2) with the lipid vesicle prepared in the step (1), sequentially extruding the mixture through cellulose membranes of 400nm, 200nm and 100nm, extruding each layer for at least 13 times, taking the subsequent filtrate, and diluting to obtain the ultrasonic contrast agent.
In the step (1), the organic solvent is one or more of methanol, ethanol, acetone, dichloromethane and chloroform, but is not limited to the illustrative range.
In the step (2), the ultrasonic intensity of the probe is 50%, and the ultrasonic time is 10min, but the method is not limited to the exemplary range. In the preferable step (3), the dilution factor is 3-6 times.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages:
(1) the shell membrane is prepared by adopting the mixture of hydrogenated soybean phospholipid, PEG phospholipid and cholesterol, the preparation method is mature, the process is simple, and the preparation has the characteristics of good in vivo biocompatibility and good in vitro stability, and is beneficial to the clinical application of the preparation.
(2) The nano-scale ultrasonic contrast agent has strong penetrating power after intravenous injection, and can reach extravascular diseased tissue and organs after penetrating through vascular endothelial cells.
(3) The encapsulated perfluorocarbon compound has higher safety, longer circulation time in tissues and capability of resisting external pressure and mechanical stress change for a longer time compared with gaseous fluorocarbon. The gaseous fluorocarbon can be quickly discharged out of the body through breathing finally, so that interference signals are minimized.
(4) Can form a nano preparation coated by a plurality of phospholipid layers, and improves the storage stability and the ultrasonic response stability.
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FIG. 1 is a transmission electron microscope image of a nano-scale ultrasound contrast agent coated with perfluorocarbon.
Fig. 2 is a graph showing a particle size potential distribution of a perfluorocarbon-encapsulated nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent.
Fig. 3 is a graph showing the storage stability of a perfluorocarbon-encapsulated nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent.
Fig. 4 is a photograph of a contrast-free portal vein image taken by an ultrasound apparatus.
Figure 5 is an imaging of a portal vein contrast intravenously injected with a perfluorocarbon-encapsulated nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent.
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The embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below for the purpose of illustration only, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
Example 1
A preparation method of a nano-scale ultrasonic contrast agent coated with perfluorocarbon comprises the following steps:
(1) dissolving hydrogenated soybean phospholipid, PEG phospholipid and cholesterol in chloroform according to mol ratio, ultrasonic dissolving completely, and evaporating at 40 deg.C under reduced pressure to remove organic solvent to obtain lipid film. Adding appropriate amount of normal saline as hydration medium, and hydrating at 37 deg.C for 30min to obtain lipid vesicle.
(2) And (2) adding perfluorocarbon into the liposome prepared in the step (1), carrying out probe ultrasonic crushing at the intensity of 50%, and carrying out ultrasonic crushing for 10min to obtain a coarse suspension.
(3) And (3) mixing the crude mixed suspension prepared in the step (2) with the lipid vesicle prepared in the step (1), sequentially extruding the mixture through cellulose membranes of 400nm, 200nm and 100nm, extruding each layer for at least 13 times, taking the subsequent filtrate, and diluting to obtain the ultrasonic contrast agent.
The prepared preparation is scanned by a transmission electron microscope, the appearance of the preparation is in a spherical shape with uniform size, an obvious shell-core structure can be seen, and a phospholipid shell has an obvious multilayer structure, which is shown in figure 1. The particle size measurement and Zeta potential evaluation are carried out, the mean value of the particle size of the preparation is 200nm, the particle size distribution range is 80-400 nm, the surface is negatively charged, the absolute value of the potential is about 25mV, and the particle size potential distribution is shown in figure 2.
Example 2
The evaluation of the storage stability of the ultrasound contrast agent prepared in example 1 mainly comprises the following steps:
the prepared contrast agent is placed at 4 ℃, samples are taken on days 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, and particle size measurement and Zeta potential evaluation are carried out on the samples.
The evaluation results are shown in FIG. 3
Example 3
The evaluation of the in-vivo imaging effect of the ultrasonic contrast agent prepared in example 1 mainly comprises the following steps:
(1) selecting male SD rats, removing abdominal hair, and performing intraperitoneal injection of barbiturates for anesthesia. The abdomen was coated with ultrasound coupling agent, and the portal vein contrast without contrast agent was performed with ultrasound apparatus, and the stored image is shown in fig. 4.
(2) The contrast agent described in example 1 was diluted 5-10 times with physiological saline, and was injected via the tail vein, and the portal vein contrast was performed, and the stored image is shown in fig. 5.

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1. A nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent containing liquid perfluorocarbon, characterized by: the envelope is mainly composed of lipid materials, and perfluorocarbons or other therapeutic drugs and the like are encapsulated inside, but not limited to the range.
2. The envelope of nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent as claimed in claim 1, comprising a plurality of lipid materials and cell biofilm. Various lipid materials include, for example, hydrogenated soybean phospholipids, pegylated phospholipids, cholesterol, and the like, and cell biological membranes include, but are not limited to, erythrocyte membranes, platelet membranes, neutrophil membranes, tumor cell membranes, and the like.
3. The envelope of the nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent of claim 1 being a monolayer or multilayer lipid.
4. The nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent-encapsulated perfluorocarbon as claimed in claim 1 is any one of perfluoropentane and perfluorohexane, but not limited to the examples.
5. The nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent according to claim 1, characterized in that: the particle size of the prepared liposome is 20-400 nm, an obvious phospholipid layer can be observed by a transmission electron microscope, and the surface potential of the liposome is +/-50 mV.
6. The ultrasound contrast agent according to claim 1, characterized in that: the perfluorocarbon entrapped in the liposome is gasified under the action of body temperature and ultrasonic effect to generate microbubbles, and the microbubbles resonate and scatter ultrasonic signals after receiving ultrasonic energy, thereby enhancing the imaging capability.
7. Use of the nanoscale ultrasound contrast agent as claimed in claims 1 to 6 for the detection of lesions.
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