A comparative study on the effects of amphiphilic and hydrophilic polymers on the release profiles of a poorly water-soluble drug

This paper reports the use of two crystalline polymers, an amphiphilic Pluronic® F-127 (PF-127) and a hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG6000) as drug delivery carriers for improving the drug release of a poorly water-soluble drug, fenofibrate (FEN), via micelle formation and formation of a solid dispersion (SD). In 10% PF-127 (aq.), FEN showed an equilibrium solubility of ca. 0.6 mg/mL, due to micelle formation. In contrast, in 10% PEG6000 (aq.), FEN only exhibited an equilibrium solubility of 0.0037 mg/mL. FEN-loaded micelles in PF-127 were prepared by direct dissolution and membrane dialysis. Both methods only yielded a highest drug loading (DL) of 0.5%. SDs of FEN in PF-127 and PEG6000, at DLs of 5-80%, were prepared by solvent evaporation. In-vitro dissolution testing showed that both micelles and SDs significantly improved FEN's release rate. The SDs of FEN in PF-127 showed significantly faster release than crystalline FEN, when the DL was as high as 50%, whereas SDs of PEG6000 showed similar enhancement in the release rate when the DL was not more than 20%. The DSC thermograms of SDs of PF-127 exhibited a single phase transition peak at ca. 55-57 °C when the DL was not more than 50%, whereas those in PEG6000 exhibited a similar peak at ca. 61-63 °C when the DL was not more than 35%. When the DL exceeded 50% for SDs of PF-127 and 35% for SDs of PEG6000, DSC thermograms showed two melting peaks for the carrier polymer and FEN, respectively. FT-IR studies revealed that PF-127 has a stronger hydrophobic-hydrophobic interaction with FEN than PEG6000. It is likely that both dispersion and micelle formation contributed to the stronger effect of PF-127 on enhancing the release rate of FEN in its SDs.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

Pharmaceutical development and technology - 21(2016), 2 vom: 11. März, Seite 231-8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Irwan, Anastasia W [VerfasserIn]
Berania, Jacqueline E [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xueming [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

059QF0KO0R
3WJQ0SDW1A
Comparative Study
Drug Carriers
Drug delivery
In-vitro drug release
Journal Article
Micelle
Micelles
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Polyethylene Glycols
Polymeric micelles
Polymers
Poorly water-soluble drug
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Solid dispersion
Water

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Date Completed 18.10.2016

Date Revised 02.12.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3109/10837450.2014.991877

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM244484600