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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 112, Issue 44, Pages 13834-13841Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp806423k
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- Ministerio de Industria y Energia
- Departament d'Universitats, Recerca i Societat, Generalitat de Catalunya
- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (MEC)
- Spain and fondos FEDER [CTQ2006-05236]
- DGA [PM079/2006]
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Docetaxel (DCT) is an antineoplastic drug for the treatment of a wide spectrum of. cancers. DCT surface properties as well as miscibility studies with L-alpha-dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC), which constitutes the main component of biological membranes, are comprehensively described in this contribution. Penetration studies have revealed that when DCT is injected under DPPC monolayers compressed to different surface pressures, it penetrates into the lipid monolayer promoting an increase in the surface pressure. DCT is a surface active molecule able to decrease the surface tension of water and to form insoluble films when spread on aqueous subphases. The maximum surface pressure reached after compression of a DCT Langmuir film was 13 mN/m. Miscibility of DPPC and DCT in Langmuir films has been studied by means of thermodynamic properties as well as by Brewster angle microscopy (BAM) analysis of the mixed films at the air-water interface, concluding that DPPC and DCT are miscible and they form nonideally mixed monolayers at the air-water interface. Helmholtz energies of mixing revealed that no phase separation occurs. In addition, Helmholtz energies of mixing become more negative with decreasing areas per molecule, which suggests that the stability of the mixed monolayers; increases as the monolayers become more condensed. Compressibility values together with BAM images indicate that DCT has a fluidizing effect on DPPC monolayers.
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