International Journal of Pharmaceutics 2016-03-16

Next generation of buccadhesive excipient: Preactivated carboxymethyl cellulose.

Flavia Laffleur, Lukas Bacher, Stefan Vanicek, Claudia Menzel, Ijaz Muhammad

Index: Int. J. Pharm. 500 , 120-7, (2016)

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Abstract

Assessment of preactivated carboxymethyl cellulose as potential excipient for buccal drug delivery.Firstly, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and cysteine (SH) were covalently coupled via amide bond formation to obtain thiolated carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC-SH). Further, preactivated carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC-S-S-MNA) was obtained by preactivation with 2-mercaptonicotinic acid (MNA). Sulforhodamine 101 (SRH101) was used as a model drug for permeation study through buccal mucosa. CMC-S-S-MNA was evaluated with respect to mucoadhesive and permeation enhancing effect and cytotoxicity.Thiolated carboxymethyl cellulose exhibited a total amount of 112.46 ± 0.46 thiol groups. CMC-S-S-MNA exhibited around 50% of preactivated thiol groups. The preactivated polymer showed no toxic effect. Furthermore, compared to unmodified CMC, CMC-S-S-MNA revealed 3.0-fold improved mucoadhesive properties according to the rotating cylinder method and 8.8-fold enhancement in mucoadhesiveness by tensile assay, respectively.Preactivated carboxymethyl cellulose fulfills the requirements as potential excipient of being mucoadhesive and permeation enhancing for the buccal drug delivery.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.