Brain Delivery of Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone via a Novel Prodrug Approach

Using thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) as a model, we explored whether synergistic combination of lipoamino acid(s) and a linker cleaved by prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) can be used as a promoiety for prodrug design for the preferential brain delivery of the peptide. A representative prodrug based...

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Main Authors: Katalin Prokai-Tatrai, Daniel L. De La Cruz, Vien Nguyen, Benjamin P. Ross, Istvan Toth, Laszlo Prokai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-07-01
Series:Pharmaceutics
Subjects:
TRH
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/11/7/349