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ArticlePharmaceutics2023

Cocrystals Enhance Biopharmaceutical and Antimicrobial Properties of Norfloxacin.

Samantha Nascimento Gomes, Isabela Fanelli Barreto Biscaia, Diana Schon Lopes, Mariana Mengarda, Fábio Seigi Murakami, Paulo Renato Oliveira, Larissa Sakis Bernardi

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Samantha Nascimento GomesGraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO), Guarapuava 85040-080, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7929-5574
Isabela Fanelli Barreto BiscaiaGraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO), Guarapuava 85040-080, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-3367-9801
Diana Schon LopesGraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO), Guarapuava 85040-080, Brazil.
Mariana MengardaGraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba 80210-170, Brazil.
Fábio Seigi MurakamiGraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba 80210-170, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-6238-3604
Paulo Renato OliveiraGraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO), Guarapuava 85040-080, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-0466-1327
Larissa Sakis BernardiGraduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste (UNICENTRO), Guarapuava 85040-080, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste · BRUniversidade Federal do Paraná · BR

Funding

Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A solvate cocrystal of the antimicrobial norfloxacin (NFX) was formed by using isonicotinamide (INA) as a coformer with the solvent evaporation technique. The cocrystal formation was confirmed by performing solid-state characterization techniques. We evaluated the dissolution under supersaturated conditions and also the solubility at the vertex of triphasic domain of cocrystal and NFX in both water and Fasted-State Simulated Intestinal Fluid (FaSSIF). The antimicrobial activity was evaluated using the microdilution technique. The cocrystal showed 1.8 times higher dissolution than NFX in water at 60 min and 1.3 times higher in FaSSIF at 180 min in the kinetic study. The cocrystal also had an increase in solubility of 8.38 times in water and 6.41 times in FaSSIF. The biopharmaceutical properties of NFX with cocrystallization improved antimicrobial action, as shown in the results of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and inhibitory concentrations of 50% (IC50%) and 90% (IC90%). This paper presents, for the first time, a more in-depth analysis of the cocrystal of NFX-INA concerning its dissolution, solubility, and antimicrobial activity. In all these criteria, the cocrystal obtained better results compared to the pure drug.

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cocrystalcolorimetric microdilution assaynorfloxacin

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PMID37765180
PMCPMC10536922
OpenAlexW4386221248

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