Microfluidics-assisted engineering of polymeric microcapsules with high encapsulation efficiency for protein drug delivery

Citation:

Pessi, J. ; Santos, H. A. ; Miroshnyk, I. ; JoukoYliruusi, ; Weitz, D. A. ; Mirza, S. Microfluidics-assisted engineering of polymeric microcapsules with high encapsulation efficiency for protein drug delivery. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 2014, 472, 82 - 87. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y5tkjtv4
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Abstract:

Abstract In this study, microfluidic technology was employed to develop protein formulations. The microcapsules were produced with a biphasic flow to create water–oil–water (W/O/W) double emulsion droplets with ultrathin shells. Optimized microcapsule formulations containing 1% (w/w) bovine serum albumin (BSA) in the inner phase were prepared with poly(vinyl alcohol), polycaprolactone and polyethylene glycol. All the particles were found to be intact and with a particle size of 23–47 μm. Furthermore, the particles were monodisperse, non-porous and stable up to 4 weeks. The encapsulation efficiency of \{BSA\} in the microcapsules was 84%. The microcapsules released 30% of their content within 168 h. This study demonstrates that microfluidics is a powerful technique for engineering formulations for therapeutic proteins.

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