کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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6456211 | 1419844 | 2017 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- The optimization of the liposome bilayer composition with the addition of different natural lipids was successfully obtained.
- The addition of cholesterol or phosphatidylethanolamine proved to have a control on the release rate.
- Optimization of both lipid composition and SuperLip operative parameters allowed to obtain theophylline encapsulation efficiencies up to 98%.
Liposomes are natural vesicles generally based on phosphatidylcholine (PC). The optimization of the lipid bilayer composition with the addition of little percentages of natural lipids is still at early stage due to the difficulties experienced by classical liposome formation processes, mainly, in reproducibility and encapsulation efficiency.Supercritical assisted liposome formation (SuperLip) has demonstrated that these limitations can be overcome. Therefore, in this work, this process has been tested to produce liposomes of controlled nanometric diameter and the effect of water solution flow rate on drug encapsulation efficiency was investigated. The addition of cholesterol (Chol) or phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) was also studied to gain the control on the release rate of the drug entrapped in liposomes. Theophylline was selected as the model hydrophilic drug.Using SuperLip process, PC/Chol and PC/PE liposomes were successfully produced with nanometric mean diameters down to 200Â nm. Optimization of both lipid composition and SuperLip operative parameters allowed to obtain theophylline encapsulation efficiencies up to 98%. Drug release kinetics were affected by liposome composition, in particular, the addiction of Chol and PE allowed to slow down theophylline release rate. These results confirmed the possibility of producing liposomes with a complex architecture of the lipid membrane using the SuperLip process.
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Journal: Journal of CO2 Utilization - Volume 18, March 2017, Pages 181-188