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FUTURE JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1186/s43094-019-0008-7
Keywords
Antihyperlipidemic; Bioavailability; Box-Behnken design; Nanostructured lipid carrier; Transdermal drug delivery
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- Department of Science and Technnology, New Delhi, India
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Background: A simvastatin nanostructured lipid carrier loaded transdermal patch was developed to enhance the bioavailability and therapeutic effect. Methods: Simvastatin NLC preparation was prepared by optimized hot homogenization technique and were characterized by particle size in nanometer, polydispersity index, zeta potential in millivolt, scanning electron microscopy, and entrapment efficiency by applying Box Behnken design utilizing multiple linear regression method. Results: Chosen optimized NLC F7 formulation has particle size of 125.4 +/- 2.66 nm, zeta potential of - 33.6 +/- 2.42 mV, and PI of 0.480 +/- 0.24. The NLC was loaded in transdermal patch by solvent evaporation method and evaluated for physical characteristics, drug content, skin permeation studies, and in-vivo pharmacokinetic studies in male albino Wistar rat. In-vivo pharmacokinetic studies in NLC loaded transdermal patch show an increase in AUC(0-alpha) in mg/ml when compared to marketed oral dosage form, which confirms the enhancement of bioavailability of simvastatin by NLC loaded transdermal patch. Conclusions: From the data, it was concluded that drug-loaded NLC transdermal patch will be a promising drug delivery system for poorly bioavailable drugs.
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