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ArticleGels (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Preparation and Characterization of Curcumin Nanoemulgel Utilizing Ultrasonication Technique for Wound Healing: In Vitro, Ex Vivo, and In Vivo Evaluation.

Mohammed S Algahtani, Mohammad Zaki Ahmad, Ihab Hamed Nourein, Hassan A Albarqi, Hamad S Alyami, Mohammad H Alyami, Abdulsalam A Alqahtani, Ali Alasiri, Thamer S Algahtani, Abdul Aleem Mohammed and 1 more

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Article in Gels (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mohammed S AlgahtaniDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0339-153X
Mohammad Zaki AhmadDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2979-8776
Ihab Hamed NoureinDepartment of Clinical Laboratory (Histopathology and Cytology), College of Applied Medical Sciences, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-0302-3473
Hassan A AlbarqiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1902-2328
Hamad S AlyamiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-3513-4976
Mohammad H AlyamiDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulsalam A AlqahtaniDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.
Ali AlasiriDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.
Thamer S AlgahtaniDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.
Abdul Aleem MohammedDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2601-7962
Javed AhmadDepartment of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Najran University, Najran 11001, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-7025-751X
Najran University · SA

Funding

Deputy for Research and Innovation - Ministry of Education, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia NU/IFC/ENT/01/005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydrogels being a drug delivery system has great significance particularly for topical application in cutaneous open wound. Its specific physicochemical properties such as non-adhesiveness, moisture retention, exudate absorption, and gas permeability make them ideal as a drug delivery vehicle for wound healing application. Further, curcumin (a natural bioactive) was selected as a therapeutic agent to incorporate into the hydrogel system to design and develop nanogel pharmaceutical products for wound healing. Although, curcumin possesses remarkable anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-infective activity along with hastening the healing process by acting over the different stages of the wound healing process, but its poor biopharmaceutical (low aqueous solubility and skin penetrability) attributes hamper their therapeutic efficacy for skin applications. The current investigation aimed to develop the curcumin-loaded nanogel system and evaluated to check the improvement in the therapeutic efficacy of curcumin through a nanomedicine-based approach for wound healing activity in Wistar rats. The curcumin was enclosed inside the nanoemulsion system prepared through a high-energy ultrasonic emulsification technique at a minimum concentration of surfactant required to nanoemulsify the curcumin-loaded oil system (Labrafac PG) having droplet size 56.25 ± 0.69 nm with polydispersity index 0.05 ± 0.01 and negatively surface charge with zeta potential -20.26 ± 0.65 mV. It was observed that the impact of Smix (surfactant/co-surfactant mixture) ratio on droplet size of generated nanoemulsion is more pronounced at lower Smix concentration (25%) compared to the higher Smix concentration (30%). The optimized curcumin-loaded nanoemulsion was incorporated into a 0.5% Carbopol

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curcuminnanoemulgelnanoemulsionthixotropyultrasonic emulsificationwound healing

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PMID34842698
PMCPMC8628781
OpenAlexW3213696361

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