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ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Surfactant-Free Chitosan/Cellulose Acetate Phthalate Nanoparticles: An Attempt to Solve the Needs of Captopril Administration in Paediatrics.

Noelia Nieto González, Guido Cerri, Jesús Molpeceres, Massimo Cossu, Giovanna Rassu, Paolo Giunchedi, Elisabetta Gavini

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Article in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Noelia Nieto GonzálezPhD Program in Chemical Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy.
Guido CerriDepartment of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning-GeoMaterials Laboratory, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6685-3351
Jesús MolpeceresDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Alcalá, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4201-0795
Massimo CossuDepartment of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy.
Giovanna RassuDepartment of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6268-8179
Paolo GiunchediDepartment of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2471-1355
Elisabetta GaviniDepartment of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0499-9419
University of Sassari · ITUniversidad de Alcalá · ES

Funding

This research was funded by the University of Sassari Fondo di Ateneo per la Ricerca, Elisabetta Gavini 2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Paediatric Committee of the European Medicines Agency encourages research into medicinal products for children, in particular, the development of an age-appropriate formulation of captopril is required in the cardiovascular therapeutic area. The aim of this study was the development of a liquid formulation using nanoparticles based only on chitosan and cellulose acetate phthalate containing captopril for the treatment of hypertension, heart failure and diabetic nephropathy in paediatric patients. Nanoparticles were prepared by a nanoprecipitation method/dropping technique without using surfactants, whose use can be associated with toxicity. A range of different cellulose to chitosan weight ratios were tested. A good encapsulation efficiency (61.0 ± 6.5%) was obtained when a high chitosan concentration was used (1:3 ratio); these nanoparticles (named NP-C) were spherical with a mean diameter of 427.1 ± 32.7 nm, 0.17 ± 0.09 PDI and +53.30 ± 0.95 mV zeta potential. NP-C dispersion remained stable for 28 days in terms of size and drug content and no captopril degradation was observed. NP-C dispersion released 70% of captopril after 2 h in pH 7.4 phosphate buffer and NP-C dispersion did not have a cytotoxicity effect on neonatal human fibroblasts except at the highest dose tested after 48 h. As a result, chitosan/cellulose nanoparticles could be considered a suitable platform for captopril delivery in paediatrics for preparing solid/liquid dosage forms.

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captoprilcellulose acetate phthalatechitosannanoparticlespaediatric diseasepaediatric formulation

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PMID35745581
PMCPMC9228859
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