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Mandatory Fields
Bannigan, P;Durack, E;Mathur, H;Rea, MC;Ross, RP;Hudson, SP
2018
December
European Journal Of Pharmaceutics And Biopharmaceutics
Delivery of a hydrophobic drug into the lower gastrointestinal system via an endogenous enzyme-mediated carrier mechanism: An in vitro study
Published
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Optional Fields
ANTIMICROBIAL MOLECULE DISSOLUTION MEDIA PEPSIN SALT INACTIVATION SIMULATION GENE
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12
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Clofazimine (CFZ) is a hydrophobic antibiotic agent which exhibits poor solubility. This poor solubility was overcome herein by the formulation of CFZ with the digestive enzyme pepsin. It is shown that pepsin can actively bind 11 CFZ molecules in the protein's native gastric environment, forming a CFZ-pepsin complex. A dynamic dissolution system, representing both the gastric and intestinal system, was used to analyze this CFZ-pepsin complex, revealing that only CFZ which binds to pepsin in the gastric environment remains in solution in the intestinal environment. The CFZ-pepsin complex displays adequate solution stability for the delivery of CFZ into the lower intestinal system. In vitro bioactivity assays against Clostridium difficile demonstrated the effectiveness of this CFZ-pepsin complex for the treatment of infectious diseases in the lower intestinal system.
AMSTERDAM
0939-6411
10.1016/j.ejpb.2018.09.019
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