Unconventional Passive Enhancement of Transdermal Drug Delivery : toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Penetration Enhancers Releasing from Acrylic Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive of Patches

PURPOSE: Penetration enhancers (PEs) enhancing efficacy depends on two processes: PEs release from patches and action on skin. Compared with their action on skin, PEs release process was poorly understood. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to make a mechanistic understanding of PEs release from acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive of patches and propose an unconventional enhancement of PEs efficacy.

METHODS: PEs efficacy was evaluated both in drug permeation study and drug pharmacokinetic study. Confocal Raman spectroscopy was employed to observe PEs release behavior by mapping PEs dynamic distribution in skin. The mechanism of PEs release behavior was provided from molecular interaction and rheology using FT-IR, molecular docking, molecular dynamic simulation and rheometer, separately.

RESULTS: The release behavior of PEs themselves greatly restricted their efficacy. By using PEG 400, an improvement of oleic acid (OA) release behavior was achieved, and the efficacy of OA was significantly enhanced with enhancing ratio (ER) from 2.69 to 4.10 and AUClast from 1574 ± 87 to 2664 ± 249 ng·h/mL, separately. The improvement of OA release behavior was primarily resulted from reduction of the interaction between OA and adhesive, which was caused by other small molecules with a strong ability in forming hydrogen bonds with adhesive. Also, the rigidity of adhesive was a factor in affecting PEs release behavior.

CONCLUSIONS: An unconventional passive enhancement of transdermal drug delivery was achieved via improving PEs themselves releasing from acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive. Graphical abstract Influence of PEs release behavior on drug permeation through skin and molecular mechanism.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

Pharmaceutical research - 37(2020), 9 vom: 13. Aug., Seite 169

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zeng, Lijuan [VerfasserIn]
Song, Wenting [VerfasserIn]
He, Wanhua [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Bian, Jinlei [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Zhengsheng [VerfasserIn]
Quan, Danyi [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Jianping [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adhesive
Adhesives
Fatty Acids
Felodipine
Journal Article
OL961R6O2C
Passive enhancement
Penetration enhancers
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Release
Transdermal patch

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 08.06.2021

Date Revised 08.06.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s11095-020-02901-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313686793