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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 92, Issue 7, Pages 1428-1437Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/jps.10412
Keywords
microemulsions; soybean lecithin; phase diagrams; droplet size; viscosity; stability; toxicity
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Pseudoternary phase diagrams have been constructed to evaluate the phase behavior of systems containing water/lecithin/polysorbate 80/isopropyl myristate at different polysorbate 80:lecithin weight ratios (K-m). Oil-in-water microemulsion regions were accurately determined and the influence of the K-m on the area of existence of such disperse systems was also examined. Viscosity studies as well as particle size analysis by dynamic light scattering were carried out on oil-water microemulsions, and the influence of the oil phase content, the total amount of surfactants and K-m on the rheological behavior, viscosity, and droplet size of such disperse systems was evaluated. All systems studied showed a water-rich isotrope region (oil-in-water microemulsion area), that was seen to be highly dependent upon the surfactant/cosurfactant weight ratio. Most of the microemulsions analyzed showed a non-Newtonian rheological behavior and both, droplet size, and viscosity of the disperse systems, were found to be much more influenced by the total content of oil phase and surfactants present in the microemulsion than by the K-m. The selected system underwent both stability and in vivo acute toxicity studies, and seemed to be highly stable, even at extreme conditions, and very low toxic according to the results obtained.
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