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Lipid-Based Depots: Manufacturing, Administration and Interactions of Protein Drugs with Lipid Formulations Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Lipid-based depots: manufacturing, administration and interactions of protein drugs with lipid formulations Michaela Maria Breitsamer aus Starnberg, Deutschland 2019 II ERKLÄRUNG Diese Dissertation wurde im Sinne von § 7 der Promotionsordnung vom 28. November 2011 von Herrn Prof. Dr. Gerhard Winter betreut. EIDESSTATTLICHE VERSICHERUNG Diese Dissertation wurde eigenständig und ohne unerlaubte Hilfe erarbeitet. Wolfratshausen, den 20.05.2019 ________________________________ (Michaela Breitsamer) Dissertation eingereicht am: 20.05.2019 1. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Winter 2. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Frieß Mündliche Prüfung am: 25.06.2019 III IV FOR MY FAMILY “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” Walt Disney (1901 – 1966) V VI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The present thesis was prepared between March 2015 and December 2018 at the Department of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) in Munich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Winter. First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Prof. Dr. Gerhard Winter for giving me the opportunity to join his research group and to work on this extremely interesting and interdisciplinary project. I really appreciated his scientific input throughout all phases of this work, his elaborate advice and his guidance, which also contributed to my personal development over the last years. Furthermore, I would like to thank him for the outstanding working and team atmosphere, which he created at the chair, for supporting my participation in scientific conferences and for initiating and motivating me to the numerous collaborations which contributed to a successful thesis. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Frieß for all the helpful and interesting discussion in the past years, as well as for being the co-referee of this thesis. Thank you for creating the pleasant working conditions together with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Winter. Many thanks also go to Prof. Dr. Olivia Merkel, Dr. Gerhard Simon and Sabine Kohler. This interdisciplinary work would not have been possible without the support of many cooperation partners, who contributed enthusiastically to this thesis. I would like to thank the group of Prof. Dr. Mathias Ritzmann and especially Dr. Christine Weiß from the Clinic for Swine at the LMU (Oberschleißheim) for their continuous support with pigs and pig skin throughout the course of this thesis. I highly appreciate the collaboration with Dr. Heiko Spilgies and Dr. Karsten Heuser from LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG. Furthermore, I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Dr. Heiko Heerklotz and Anja Stulz from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, for the nice discussions and fruitful cooperation. I would also like to thank NanoTemper Technologies GmbH and especially Dr. Nuska Tschammer for helping me with the MST measurements and interpretation thereof. The groups of Dr. Mathias Schmidt and Prof. Dr. Felix Hausch at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry in Munich are thanked for the opportunity to collaborate to these successful in vivo studies. Particularly I would like to thank Max Pöhlmann, Dr. Georgia Balsevich and VII Dr. Karla-Gerlinde Schraut for the great work together. The same thanks go out to Dr. Sandrine Geranton and Dr. Maria Maiarù from the University College London (UCL) for this fruitful partnership. I would also like to thank the group of Prof. Dr. Jörg Breitkreutz and especially Bastian Hahn from the Heinrich Heine Universität in Düsseldorf for hosting me for some days and helping me with the extrusion experiments. Further I would like to express my gratitude Dr. Jilong Wang and Prof. XiaoJiao Du from the Institutes for Life Sciences and School of Medicine at South China University of Technology for their help with the calculation of PK paramaters. Many thanks are expressed to my students Nadine Hasreiter and Anna Fuchs, who did their “Wahlpflichtpraktikum” on my project and Natalie Deiringer, who conducted her master thesis under my supervision. Thank you, you did a great job! In this context, I would also like to thank Katharina Kopp who continues the preparation of VPGs for our collaboration partners. A big “Thank you” goes to my former colleagues from the LMU from the Winter, Frieß and Merkel labs for welcoming me so heartily to the group and creating a comfortable and funny atmosphere. All our skiing, hiking and other social events and get togethers were great fun and made the time unforgettable for me. A special thanks goes to my (extended) lab mates Dr. Moritz Vollrath, Weiwei Liu, Carolin Berner, Dennis Krieg, Markus Zang, Dr. Katharina Geh and Dr. Leticia Rodrigues Neibecker for welcoming me to the lab and the great time we had together in B1.029/B1.028 with all the funny craziness and fruitful discussions. As a former head of “Disperse” practical course I would also like to express my deep gratitude to the whole Disperse-Team – working with you was always fun and easy! I am most grateful to Dr. Randy Wanner, Dr. Matthias Lucke, Dr. Kay Strüver, Dr. Benjamin Werner, Dr. Kerstin Hoffmann, Dr. Corinna Dürr and Dr. Ilona Vollrath for welcoming me so warmly to the group in my first few months and to Simon Eisele, Ruth Rieser, Ivonne Seifert and Andreas Stelzl, who made the last years unforgettable. You were not only great colleagues but also became excellent friends and never failed to bring a smile to my face! Special thanks further go to my lunch and coffee gang, Alice Hirschmann, Dr. Laura Engelke and last but not least Andreas Tosstorff, for your friendship and the welcome distraction every day. VIII I would also like to express my gratitude to Paula, Rita, Flo, Luca, Anna, Jasper, Lina, Leon, Lucas, Jacob and Mira, for all the fun we had together in the last few years besides my work at the university – you are the best friends I could wish for. My deepest and immense gratitude goes to my parents, Petra and Michael, as well as to my sister, Vroni with Thomas, Flocke and Marini who gave me roots and always supported me. Thank you for making things possible for me, for being there when I needed you and for your infinite and unconditional love! Last but not least I would like to thank Felix for his continuous encouragement, his endless support, his patience and his love. Thank you for being who you are. You were my dead sea when I was threatened to sink! IX X TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................ VII TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................. XI CHAPTER I VESICULAR PHOSPHOLIPID GELS AS DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR SMALL MOLECULAR WEIGHT DRUGS, PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS: STATE OF THE ART REVIEW ............................................................................................................................... 1 I.1 Abstract ............................................................................................................................................... 2 I.2 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 4 I.2.1 Liposomes for sustained release of protein drugs .............................................................................. 4 I.2.2 DepoFoam technology ........................................................................................................................ 6 I.2.3 Phospholipid-based phase separation gel (PPSG) .............................................................................. 7 I.3 Vesicular phospholipid gels (VPGs) ...................................................................................................... 8 I.3.1 Definition and structural features ...................................................................................................... 8 I.3.2 Preparation of VPGs and drug encapsulation techniques .................................................................. 9 I.3.2.1 High-pressure homogenization (HPH) ...................................................................................... 10 I.3.2.2 Magnetic stirring ....................................................................................................................... 11 I.3.2.3 Dual centrifugation (DC) ........................................................................................................... 12 I.3.2.4 Encapsulation techniques for drugs .......................................................................................... 13 I.3.2.5 Sterile manufacturing of VPGs .................................................................................................. 14 I.3.3 Sustained release of encapsulated drugs from VPGs ....................................................................... 15 I.3.4 Applications of VPGs ......................................................................................................................... 17 I.3.4.1 Application as storage form of liposomes ................................................................................. 18 I.3.4.2 Application as drug delivery device for the sustained release of small molecular drugs and peptides ..............................................................................................................................................
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