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ArticlePharmaceutics2024

The Distinctive Role of Gluconic Acid in Retarding Percutaneous Drug Permeation: Formulation of Lidocaine-Loaded Chitosan Nanoparticles.

Amnon C Sintov

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Amnon C SintovDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-7995-0276

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Abstract

The objective of the present investigation was to evidence the skin retardation phenomenon of lidocaine by gluconic acid as an inactive ingredient involved in citrate-crosslinking chitosan nanoparticles. Lidocaine hydrochloride was loaded in nanoparticles based on chitosan, fabricated by using a water-in-oil microemulsion as a template and citric acid as an ionic cross-linker. Gluconic acid (pentahydroxy hexanoic acid) was added during the fabrication and compared with caproic acid, a non-hydroxy hexanoic acid. The chitosan nanoparticulate systems were characterized for mean particle size, particle size distribution, and zeta potential. The pentahydroxy hexanoic acid decreased the zeta potential to a significantly lower value than those obtained from both plain citrate and citrate-hexanoic acid formulations. The relatively lower value implies that gluconate ions are partly attached to the nanoparticle's surface and mask its positively charged groups. It was also noted that the in vitro percutaneous permeation flux of lidocaine significantly decreased when gluconate-containing chitosan nanoparticles were applied, i.e., 6.1 ± 1.5 μg‧cm

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chitosan nanoparticlesgluconic acidlidocainepercutaneous permeation retardanttopical drug delivery

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PMID38931951
PMCPMC11207278

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