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Chamorro Cañon JD, Luna MA, Sabini MC, Molina PG, Correa NM. Electrochemical Characterization of the Encapsulation and Release of 5-Fluorouracil in Nanocarriers Formed from Soy Lecithin Vesicles. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:5427-5436. [PMID: 38808516 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c02202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2024]
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5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is an antineoplastic agent known for its low bioavailability and limited cellular penetration, often resulting in adverse effects on healthy cells. Thus, finding vehicles that enhance bioavailability, enable controlled release, and mitigate adverse effects is crucial. The study focuses on encapsulating 5-FU within soy lecithin vesicles (SLVs) and assessing its impact on the carrier's properties and functionality. Results show that incorporating 5-FU does not affect SLVs' size or polydispersity, even postlyophilization. Liberation of 5-FU from SLVs requires system disruption rather than spontaneous release, with an encapsulation efficiency of approximately 43% determined using Square Wave Voltammetry. Cytotoxicity assays on colorectal cancer cells reveal SLV-based delivery's significant efficacy, surpassing free drug solution effects with 45% cell viability after 72 h vs 73% viability. The research addresses 5-FU's limited bioavailability by creating a biocompatible nanocarrier for efficient drug delivery, highlighting SLVs as promising for targeted cancer therapy due to sustained antiproliferative effects and improved cellular uptake. The study underscores the importance of tailored drug delivery systems in enhancing therapeutic outcomes and suggests SLV/5-FU formulations as a potential advancement in cancer treatment strategies.
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- J David Chamorro Cañon
- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS) (CONICET-UNRC), Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal # 3, C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
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- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS) (CONICET-UNRC), Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal # 3, C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud (INICSA-CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Blvd de la Reforma and Enfermera Gordillo Gómez, C.P. X5016 Córdoba, Argentina
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- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS) (CONICET-UNRC), Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal # 3, C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
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- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS) (CONICET-UNRC), Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal # 3, C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
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Berrio Velasco LF, Moyano F, Molina PG, Correa NM. Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Studies Performed for Indomethacin and 1-Naphthol Incorporated in 1-Butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium Bis(2-ethylhexyl) Sulfosuccinate Vesicles to Investigate Them as a Potentially pH-Sensitive Nanocarrier. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:1869-1877. [PMID: 38194363 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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Characterization studies of 1-butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate vesicles at different pH values have been carried out by using liquid surface tension, transmission electron microscopy, and dynamic light scattering. The results show that there are no vesicle changes in its size and negative Z potential at pH 3, 6, and 10. Furthermore, indomethacin and 1-naphthol, both pH-dependent, electroactive, and fluorescence probes, were used to further characterize the bilayer employing electrochemical and emission techniques. The partition of indomethacin and 1-naphthol between the water and bilayer pseudophases only occurs for the neutral species and does not happen for the anionic species because the highly negative Z bilayer potential prevents incorporation due to negative repulsion. For the neutral species, the partition constant values were evaluated by square wave voltammetry and emission spectroscopy. Finally, for the indomethacin incorporated into the vesicle bilayer at pH 3, the release profile was monitored over time at pH 6. It was found that a change in the pH values causes the complete release of indomethacin after 25 min, which led us to think that the vesicles presented in this work can be used as a pH-sensitive nanocarrier for neutral pH-sensitive drugs.
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- Luis F Berrio Velasco
- Instituto para el desarrollo agroindustrial y de la salud (IDAS, CONICET-UNRC), Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal #3. C.P. , Río Cuarto X5804BYA, Argentina
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- Instituto para el desarrollo agroindustrial y de la salud (IDAS, CONICET-UNRC), Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal #3. C.P. , Río Cuarto X5804BYA, Argentina
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- Instituto para el desarrollo agroindustrial y de la salud (IDAS, CONICET-UNRC), Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal #3. C.P. , Río Cuarto X5804BYA, Argentina
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- Instituto para el desarrollo agroindustrial y de la salud (IDAS, CONICET-UNRC), Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal #3. C.P. , Río Cuarto X5804BYA, Argentina
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Dib N, Girardi VR, Silber JJ, Correa NM, Falcone RD. How the external solvent in biocompatible reverse micelles can improve the alkaline phosphatase behavior. Org Biomol Chem 2021; 19:4969-4977. [PMID: 34002175 DOI: 10.1039/d0ob02371j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In the last decade, the nature of the nonpolar solvents that can be part of reverse micelles (RMs) has been the topic of several investigations to improve their applications. In this sense, the hydrolysis of 1-naphthyl phosphate catalyzed by the enzyme alkaline phosphatase (AP) was used as a probe to investigate the effect of the change of the external solvent on RMs formulated with the anionic surfactant sodium diethylhexyl sulfosuccinate (AOT). As external nonpolar solvents, two biocompatible lipophilic esters, isopropyl myristate and methyl laurate, and the traditional nonpolar solvents, n-heptane and benzene, were used. The results were compared among the RMs investigated and with the reaction in homogeneous media. Thus, the effect of the nanoconfinement as well as the impact of the replacement of a conventional external nonpolar solvent by biocompatible solvents were analyzed. The results indicate that the catalytic efficiency in the AOT RMs is larger than that in homogeneous media, denoting a different hydration level over the AP enzyme, which is directly related to the different degrees of nonpolar solvent penetration to the RM interface. Our findings demonstrated that toxic solvents such as n-heptane and benzene can be replaced by nontoxic ones (isopropyl myristate or methyl laurate) in AOT RMs without affecting the performance of micellar systems as nanoreactors, making them a green and promising alternative toward efficient and sustainable chemistry.
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- Nahir Dib
- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina and Instituto de Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina and Instituto de Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina and Instituto de Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Rio Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina and Instituto de Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Agencia Postal 3, C.P. X5804BYA, Ruta Nacional 36, km 601, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina.
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Piroxicam-loaded nanostructured lipid carriers gel: Design and characterization by square wave voltammetry. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Lépori CMO, Correa NM, Silber JJ, Falcone RD, López-López M, Moyá ML. Influence of the AOT Counterion Chemical Structure on the Generation of Organized Systems. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:10785-10793. [PMID: 32830497 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The impact of the imidazolium counterion structure on the organized systems formed by the surfactant 1,4-bis-2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate, AOT, both in aqueous solutions and in nonpolar solvents is investigated. With this in mind, we investigated if the ionic liquid-like (IL-like) surfactant 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium 1,4-bis-2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate, emim-AOT, forms direct micelles or vesicles in water. Dynamic light scattering, zeta potential, conductivity, fluorescence spectroscopy, and UV-visible spectroscopy measurements were performed to characterize the organized systems in aqueous solutions. We also studied the self-aggregation of emim-AOT, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium 1,4-bis-2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate, bmim-AOT, and of 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium 1,4-bis-2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate, hmim-AOT, in nonpolar solvents. The results obtained showed that the IL-like surfactant emim-AOT forms direct micelles in water, as sodium 1,4-bis-2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate (Na-AOT) does. However, emim-AOT aggregates are larger, have a lower surface charge, are more stable, and have a more polar and less fluid micellar interface than Na-AOT micelles. It was also observed that emim-AOT and hmim-AOT form reverse micelles in nonpolar solvents. The size of the imidazolium cations dramatically influences the size of the reverse micelles and their ability to solubilize water.
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- Cristian M O Lépori
- Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola (IFEG), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Medina Allende s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC), Agencia Postal # 3, X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), CONICET-UNRC, Agencia Postal # 3, X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC), Agencia Postal # 3, X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), CONICET-UNRC, Agencia Postal # 3, X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC), Agencia Postal # 3, X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS), CONICET-UNRC, Agencia Postal # 3, X5804BYA Río Cuarto, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Química Física y Ciencias de Materiales, Centro de Ciencia y Tecnología, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, Campus "El Carmen", E-21071 Huelva, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Sevilla, c/Prof. García González 1, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
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Otarola JJ, Cobo Solís AK, Mariano Correa N, Molina PG. Piroxicam‐Loaded Nanostructured Lipid Nanocarriers Modified with Salicylic Acid: The Effect on Drug Release. ChemistrySelect 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201904227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Jessica J. Otarola
- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS). UNRC-CONICET. Agencia Postal # 3. C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto. Argentina
- Departamento de Química. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales. Agencia Postal # 3. C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto. Argentina
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- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS). UNRC-CONICET. Agencia Postal # 3. C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto. Argentina
- Departamento de Química. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales. Agencia Postal # 3. C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto. Argentina
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- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS). UNRC-CONICET. Agencia Postal # 3. C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto. Argentina
- Departamento de Química. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales. Agencia Postal # 3. C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto. Argentina
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- Instituto para el Desarrollo Agroindustrial y de la Salud (IDAS). UNRC-CONICET. Agencia Postal # 3. C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto. Argentina
- Departamento de Química. Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físico-Químicas y Naturales. Agencia Postal # 3. C.P. X5804BYA Río Cuarto. Argentina
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Borunda T, Myers AJ, Mary Fisher J, Crans DC, Johnson MD. Confinement Effects on Chemical Equilibria: Pentacyano(Pyrazine)Ferrate(II) Stability Changes within Nanosized Droplets of Water. Molecules 2018; 23:E858. [PMID: 29642558 PMCID: PMC6016957 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23040858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2018] [Revised: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Nanoscale confinement is known to impact properties of molecules and we observed changes in the reactivity of an iron coordination complex, pentacyano(pyrazine)ferrate(II). The confinement of two coordination complexes in a sodium AOT/isooctane reverse micellar (RM) water droplet was found to dramatically increase the hydrolysis rate of [Fe(CN)₅pyz]3- and change the monomer-dimer equilibria between [Fe(CN)₅pyz]3- and [Fe₂(CN)10pyz]6-. Combined UV-Vis and ¹H-NMR spectra of these complexes in RMs were analyzed and the position of the monomer-dimer equilibrium and the relative reaction times were determined at three different RM sizes. The data show that the hydrolysis rates (loss of pyrazine) are dramatically enhanced in RMs over bulk water and increase as the size of the RM decreases. Likewise, the monomer-dimer equilibrium changes to favor the formation of dimer as the RM size decreases. We conclude that the effects of the [Fe(CN)₅pyz]3- stability is related to its solvation within the RM.
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- Teofilo Borunda
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
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