Journal
COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
Volume 106, Issue -, Pages 135-139Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2013.01.022
Keywords
Mesoporous materials; LDH; Drug delivery; Methotrexate; Sustained release
Funding
- European Social Fund in Romania [POSDRU/88/1.5/S/47646]
- European Union [264115 - STREAM]
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The feasibility of some mesoporous materials such as SBA-15 and MCM-41 silica, LDH (layered double hydroxide) (Mg3Al-NO3) and MC (mesoporous carbon) have been comparatively evaluated for oral drug delivery applications, in order to broaden the range of matrices and implicitly to develop the class of drug delivery systems based on diffusion mechanism. As well known, methotrexate (MTX) is used widely to treat various neoplastic diseases such as acute lymphoblast leukemia, lymphoma and solid cancers and autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis. The commercially available formulations of this drug have disadvantages due to the traditional release process that occurs in the body. Thus, this work is focused on the long-term controlled MIX delivery because this one could eliminate over or underdosing, could maintain drug levels in desired range, could increase patient compliance and prevent the side effects. Therefore, the mesoporous materials are used and efficient MIX-delivery systems, based on above-mentioned mesoporous materials, are successfully prepared by intercalation. The obtained drug carriers were tested in the controlled MIX-drug release process and the influence of the pore morphology and geometry on MTX release profiles was extensively studied comparatively. The prepared MIX delivery systems were characterized by FTIR and UV-vis spectroscopy, N-2 sorption measurements. Then, the data obtained from the in vitro release studies have been analyzed, and in order to evaluate the MTX-release mechanism and kinetics, the Korsmeyer-Peppas equation has been applied. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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