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Praziquantel meets Niclosamide: A dual-drug Antiparasitic Cocrystal

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2023.123315

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Dual-drug cocrystal; Praziquantel-Niclosamide cocrystal; Cocrystal structure solution; In vitro anthelmintic activity; In vivo preliminary tests; Minicapsules size M

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This paper presents a successful case of combining drugs through cocrystallization, resulting in a novel solid with favorable properties. The cocrystal exhibits higher anthelmintic activity and prevents the transformation of one drug into an insoluble form.
In this paper we report a successful example of combining drugs through cocrystallization. Specifically, the novel solid is formed by two anthelminthic drugs, namely praziquantel (PZQ) and niclosamide (NCM) in a 1:3 molar ratio, and it can be obtained through a sustainable one-step mechanochemical process in the presence of micromolar amounts of methanol. The novel solid phase crystallizes in the monoclinic space group of P21/c, showing one PZQ and three NCM molecules linked through homo- and heteromolecular hydrogen bonds in the asymmetric unit, as also attested by SSNMR and FT-IR results. A plate-like habitus is evident from scanning electron microscopy analysis with a melting point of 202.89 degrees C, which is intermediate to those of the parent compounds. The supramolecular interactions confer favorable properties to the cocrystal, preventing NCM transformation into the insoluble monohydrate both in the solid state and in aqueous solution. Remarkably, the PZQ - NCM cocrystal exhibits higher anthelmintic activity against in vitro S. mansoni models than corresponding physical mixture of the APIs. Finally, due to in vitro promising results, in vivo preliminary tests on mice were also performed through the administration of minicapsules size M.

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