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Manufacturing of 3D-Printed Microfluidic Devices for the Synthesis of Drug-Loaded Liposomal Formulations

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العنوان: Manufacturing of 3D-Printed Microfluidic Devices for the Synthesis of Drug-Loaded Liposomal Formulations
المؤلفون: Giulia Ballacchino, Edward Weaver, Essyrose Mathew, Rossella Dorati, Ida Genta, Bice Conti, Dimitrios A. Lamprou
المصدر: International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Volume 22; Issue 15; Pages: 8064
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: microfluidics, chip manufacturing, 3D printing, nanoparticles, liposomes, curcumin, drug delivery, personalised medicine
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: Microfluidic technique has emerged as a promising tool for the production of stable and monodispersed nanoparticles (NPs). In particular, this work focuses on liposome production by microfluidics and on factors involved in determining liposome characteristics. Traditional fabrication techniques for microfluidic devices suffer from several disadvantages, such as multistep processing and expensive facilities. Three-dimensional printing (3DP) has been revolutionary for microfluidic device production, boasting facile and low-cost fabrication. In this study, microfluidic devices with innovative micromixing patterns were developed using fused deposition modelling (FDM) and liquid crystal display (LCD) printers. To date, this work is the first to study liposome production using LCD-printed microfluidic devices. The current study deals with 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) liposomes with cholesterol (2:1) prepared using commercial and 3D-printed microfluidic devices. We evaluated the effect of microfluidic parameters, chip manufacturing, material, and channel design on liposomal formulation by analysing the size, PDI, and ζ-potential. Curcumin exhibits potent anticancer activity and it has been reported that curcumin-loaded liposomes formulated by microfluidics show enhanced encapsulation efficiency when compared with other reported systems. In this work, curcumal liposomes were produced using the developed microfluidic devices and particle sizing, ζ-potential, encapsulation efficiency, and in vitro release studies were performed at 37 °C.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Materials Science; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22158064
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22158064
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22158064
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.DB91F2FD
قاعدة البيانات: BASE