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JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
卷 104, 期 11, 页码 3842-3850出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1002/jps.24595
关键词
liposomes; drug delivery systems; supercritical fluids; processing; particle size
资金
- Brazilian National Institutes of Science and Technology (CNPq/INCT - Nanobiofar Project)
- Brazilian National Institutes of Science and Technology (CAPES foundation) [5780-11-0]
Supercritical fluid extraction using a high-pressure packed tower is proposed not only to remove the ethanol residue from liposome suspensions but also to affect their size and distribution leading the production of nanosomes. Different operating pressures, temperatures, and gas to liquid ratios were explored and ethanol was successfully extracted up to a value of 400 ppm; liposome size and distribution were also reduced by the supercritical processing preserving their integrity, as confirmed by Z-potential data and Trasmission Electron Microscopy observations. Operating at 120 bar and 38 degrees C, nanosomes with a mean diameter of about 180 +/- 40nm and good storage stability were obtained. The supercritical processing did not interfere on drug encapsulation, and no loss of entrapped drug was observed when the water-soluble fluorescein was loaded as a model compound. Fluorescein encapsulation efficiency was 30% if pure water was used during the supercritical extraction as processing fluid; whereas an encapsulation efficiency of 90% was obtained if the liposome suspension was processed in water/fluorescein solution. The described technology is easy to scale up to an industrial production and merge in one step the solvent extraction, liposome size engineering, and an excellent drug encapsulation in a single operation unit. (c) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. and the American Pharmacists Association J Pharm Sci 104:3842-3850, 2015
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