Development of photo-magnetic drug delivery system by facile-designed dual stimuli-responsive modified biopolymeric chitosan capped nano-vesicle to improve efficiency in the anesthetic effect and its biological investigations

Though anesthetic drug delivery system and drug vehicles is generally applied for pain relief, there are have many difficulties and issues due to its short duration carrier and low biocompatibility, effectiveness at the conditions of inflammation at acidic pH. To resolve this issue, we have designed and developed the dual (pH and temperature) responsive bio-nanomaterial to improve the efficiency anesthetic drug delivery system. Chitosan is a unique class of biomaterials that is widely used in medical devices. The surface engineering of ZnFe2O4 nanoparticles was performed by coating with chitosan using simple precipitation method. Then, multi-active anesthetic drug (Lidocaine) was loaded into nano-ferrite to form a drug delivery vehicle. The prepared drug-vesicle was characterized by using XRD, FTIR, SEM, XPS and TGA analysis. XRD analysis proved the face center cubic structure of zinc nanoferrite. The sustained delivery of Lidocaine (LDC) from CS coated nanoferrite (CS/ZnFe2O4) was stimulated by pH and temperature responsive characteristics of vesicles. The in vitro cytotoxicity of the CS/ZnFe2O4 particles towards fibroblast cells was analyzed by using MTT assay. The drug loaded CS/ZnFe2O4 particles exhibit high biocompatibility and sustained drug release in the physiological pH environment (4.8, 5.5 and 7.4) and temperature responsive (25 and 37 degrees C) of normal tissues and also drug loading efficiency was measured.