The invention discloses a high-efficiency targeted anti-
hepatic fibrosis oral
nano drug delivery system and a preparation method thereof. According to the
system, a
sesquiterpene lactone component, namely lettuce
lactone (LC), in Xinjiang traditional liver protection medicinal material
cichorium glandulosum is used as a
medicine core, and although the lettuce
lactone has a good anti-
fibrosis effect, the lettuce lactone (LC) has the problems of poor water
solubility, high first-pass
metabolism and the like. Therefore, 18 beta-glycyrrhetinic acid modified
silicon-based
hybrid micelles (LC-FS-G) are studied and constructed, the
liver targeting property of glycyrrhetinic acid and a
silicon-based cross-linked structure are utilized to enhance the stability, and
drug release is responded in a
glutathione (GSH) high expression environment by virtue of a
disulfide bond. The particle size of the obtained
micelle is uniform (27.83 nm), the encapsulation efficiency reaches 95.05%, and the
drug loading rate is 10.62%. The
system is slowly released in gastric juice (48h release lt); 50%), and the gt can be quickly released in a high GSH environment (36h release gt; 87%), and the
liver fibrosis process can be reversed by regulating and controlling a TGF-beta /
Smad pathway. According to the strategy, physicochemical and metabolic restrictions of LC are overcome, and a new way with high efficiency and
low toxicity is provided for oral nano
targeted therapy of
hepatic fibrosis.