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pH-sensitive, serum-stable liposomes

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In this article, a thermally-sensitive polymer with a pH-sensitive substituent was used to provide liposomes that are pH sensitive, yet are also stable in serum.
Abstract
This invention relates to the field of liposomes In particular, this invention provides novel liposomes that are pH-sensitive, yet are also stable in serum The liposomes are complexed with a molecule comprising a thermally-sensitive polymer showing lower critical solution temperature behavior in aqueous solutions, said thermally-sensitive polymer bearing a hydrophobic substituent and a pH sensitive substituent, wherein said hydrophobic substituent is less than 10 kD and which pH sensitive substituent remains ionizable following said covalent bonding to said thermally-sensitive polymer, and whose pH sensitive does not depend on cleavage of the covalent bond to said thermally-sensitive polymer The invention further relates to methods of conferring pH sensitivity upon liposomes by complexing the liposomes with such molecules

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