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Hibbins AR, Kumar P, Choonara YE, Kondiah PPD, Marimuthu T, Du Toit LC, Pillay V. Design of a Versatile pH-Responsive Hydrogel for Potential Oral Delivery of Gastric-Sensitive Bioactives. Polymers (Basel) 2017; 9:polym9100474. [PMID: 30965777 PMCID: PMC6418787 DOI: 10.3390/polym9100474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2017] [Revised: 09/25/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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A pH-responsive hydrogel system was prepared by free radical polymerization of acrylamide and methyl acrylic acid in the presence of N-N′-methylene bisacrylamide. Sodium bicarbonate was further applied as a blowing agent, which afforded a porous hydrogel structure. The hydrogel system achieved a constant super swelling rate within simulated intestinal buffer (~4%/min) and remained relatively static within simulated gastric buffer (~0.8%/min). The hydrogel system was able to achieve matrix resilience greater than 30% under a relatively high strain of 40%. In addition, the hydrogel system demonstrated significant swelling properties in response to simulated intestinal environmental over 24 h, with contrasting characteristics in simulated gastric buffer. The hydrogel demonstrated type IV isotherm porosity characteristics, with remarkable MRI and SEM variations in gastric and intestinal simulated fluids. Drug loading was observed to be greater than 98% using theophylline as a prototype drug, evaluating its controlled release kinetics over 24 h. The hydrogel exhibited substantial pH-responsive activity, which could be used as a versatile platform for targeted release of gastric-sensitive therapeutics to the small intestine.
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Affiliation(s)
- Angus R Hibbins
- Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Therapeutics Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa.
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- Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Therapeutics Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa.
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- Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Therapeutics Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa.
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- Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Therapeutics Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa.
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- Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Therapeutics Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa.
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- Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Therapeutics Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa.
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- Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform Research Unit, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Therapeutics Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 7 York Road, Parktown 2193, South Africa.
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McClements DJ, Xiao H, Demokritou P. Physicochemical and colloidal aspects of food matrix effects on gastrointestinal fate of ingested inorganic nanoparticles. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2017; 246:165-180. [PMID: 28552424 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2017.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Revised: 05/08/2017] [Accepted: 05/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Inorganic nanoparticles, such as titanium dioxide, silicon dioxide, iron oxide, zinc oxide, or silver nanoparticles, are added to some food products and food packaging materials to obtain specific functional attributes, such as lightening, powder flow, nutrition, or antimicrobial properties. These engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) all have dimensions below 100nm, but may still vary considerably in composition, morphology, charge, surface properties and aggregation state, which effects their gastrointestinal fate and potential toxicity. In addition to their intrinsic physicochemical and morphological properties, the extrinsic properties of the media they are suspended in also affects their biotransformation, gastrointestinal fate and bioactivity. For instance, inorganic nanoparticles are usually consumed as part of a food or meal that contains numerous other components, such as lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, surfactants, minerals, and water, which may alter their gastrointestinal fate. This review article provides an overview of the potential effects of food components on the behavior of ENMs in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), and highlights some important physicochemical and colloidal mechanisms by which the food matrix may alter the properties of inorganic nanoparticles. This information is essential for developing appropriate test methods to establish the potential toxicity and biokinetics of inorganic nanoparticles in foods.
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McClements DJ, Saliva-Trujillo L, Zhang R, Zhang Z, Zou L, Yao M, Xiao H. Boosting the bioavailability of hydrophobic nutrients, vitamins, and nutraceuticals in natural products using excipient emulsions. Food Res Int 2016; 88:140-152. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2015.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Revised: 11/17/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Enhancing nutraceutical bioavailability by controlling the composition and structure of gastrointestinal contents: Emulsion-based delivery and excipient systems. FOOD STRUCTURE-NETHERLANDS 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foostr.2016.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Excipient Nanoemulsions for Improving Oral Bioavailability of Bioactives. NANOMATERIALS 2016; 6:nano6010017. [PMID: 28344274 PMCID: PMC5302540 DOI: 10.3390/nano6010017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2015] [Revised: 01/04/2016] [Accepted: 01/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The oral bioavailability of many hydrophobic bioactive compounds found in natural food products (such as vitamins and nutraceuticals in fruits and vegetables) is relatively low due to their low bioaccessibility, chemical instability, or poor absorption. Most previous research has therefore focused on the design of delivery systems to incorporate isolated bioactive compounds into food products. However, a more sustainable and cost-effect approach to enhancing the functionality of bioactive compounds is to leave them within their natural environment, but specifically design excipient foods that enhance their bioavailability. Excipient foods typically do not have functionality themselves but they have the capacity to enhance the functionality of nutrients present in natural foods by altering their bioaccessibility, absorption, and/or chemical transformation. In this review article we present the use of excipient nanoemulsions for increasing the bioavailability of bioactive components from fruits and vegetables. Nanoemulsions present several advantages over other food systems for this application, such as the ability to incorporate hydrophilic, amphiphilic, and lipophilic excipient ingredients, high physical stability, and rapid gastrointestinal digestibility. The design, fabrication, and application of nanoemulsions as excipient foods will therefore be described in this article.
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McClements DJ, Zou L, Zhang R, Salvia-Trujillo L, Kumosani T, Xiao H. Enhancing Nutraceutical Performance Using Excipient Foods: Designing Food Structures and Compositions to Increase Bioavailability. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/1541-4337.12170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- David Julian McClements
- Biopolymers and Colloids Laboratory, Dept. of Food Science; Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst; Amherst Mass 01003 U.S.A
- Biochemistry Dept., Faculty of Science, Production of Bioproducts for Industrial Applications Research Group and Experimental Biochemistry Unit; King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz Univ; Jeddah Saudi Arabia
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology; Nanchang Univ; Nanchang, No. 235 Nanjing East Road Nanchang 330047 Jiangxi China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology; Nanchang Univ; Nanchang, No. 235 Nanjing East Road Nanchang 330047 Jiangxi China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology; Nanchang Univ; Nanchang, No. 235 Nanjing East Road Nanchang 330047 Jiangxi China
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- Biochemistry Dept., Faculty of Science, Production of Bioproducts for Industrial Applications Research Group and Experimental Biochemistry Unit; King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz Univ; Jeddah Saudi Arabia
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- Biopolymers and Colloids Laboratory, Dept. of Food Science; Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst; Amherst Mass 01003 U.S.A
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McClements DJ, Xiao H. Excipient foods: designing food matrices that improve the oral bioavailability of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. Food Funct 2014; 5:1320-33. [DOI: 10.1039/c4fo00100a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The oral bioavailability of many lipophilic bioactive agents (pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals) is limited due to various physicochemical and physiological processes. Excipient foods can be designed to improve the oral bioavailability of these bioactive agents.
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- David Julian McClements
- Biopolymers and Colloids Laboratory
- Department of Food Science
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Amherst, USA
- Department of Biochemistry
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- Biopolymers and Colloids Laboratory
- Department of Food Science
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Amherst, USA
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McClements DJ. Utilizing food effects to overcome challenges in delivery of lipophilic bioactives: structural design of medical and functional foods. Expert Opin Drug Deliv 2013; 10:1621-32. [DOI: 10.1517/17425247.2013.837448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Hibbins AR, Choonara YE, Kumar P, du Toit LC, Pillay V. Physicomechanical characterization and optimization of EDTA-mPEG and Avicel®-EDTA-mPEG in situ melt dispersion mini-pellets. AAPS PharmSciTech 2013; 14:935-49. [PMID: 23733514 DOI: 10.1208/s12249-013-9979-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2013] [Accepted: 05/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The purpose of this study was to develop a physicomechanically customizable oral metal chelatory in situ hot melt dispersion mini-pellet entity which could be utilized within a binary drug delivery system. Avicel(®) RC/CL type R-591 was included within the in situ hot melt dispersion mini-pellet formulations to determine the physicomechanical effect this compound would have on the mini-pellet formulations. The physicomechanical properties of the hot melt in situ mini-pellet formulations were mathematically fitting to regression curves. Physicomechanical adjustment of the in situ hot melt dispersion mini-pellet formulations could be mathematically predicted with the derived regression curve equations. The addition of Avicel(®) RC/CL type R-591 increased the physicomechanical properties such as matrix hardness and increased total disintegration of the in situ hot melt dispersion mini-pellet formulations. The utilization of a physicomechanically customizable oral metal chelatory in situ hot melt dispersion mini-pellet entity within a binary drug delivery system would to achieve a synergistically enhance the activity of a drug-carrying entity or a permeation enhancing entity within a single drug delivery unit. The experimental results indicated that weights of the pellets that achieved optimal hardness ranged between 35 and 45 mg. The melt-dispersion formulations disintegrated within shorter time periods and maintained higher ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) concentrations whereas melt-dispersion formulations which included Avicel(®) had superior physicomechanical properties. Disintegration times ranged between 1,000 s for melt-dispersions containing EDTA and methyloxy polyethylene glycol 2000 (mPEG) only, to >6,000 s for melt-dispersions comprising EDTA, mPEG, and Avicel(®).
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