title: The production and characteristics of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs).
abstract: Modified high shear homogenization and ultrasound techniques were employed to produce solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). Model drug mifepristone had been incorporated in SLNs. The mean particle size measured by laser diffractometry (LD) was found to be 106 nm with a narrow particle distribution of polydispersity index, 0.278. Differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction measurements suggested that the majority of the SLNs were less ordered arrangement of crystals, and this was favorable for increasing the drug loading capacity. The drug entrapment efficiency (EE%) of SLNs was more than 87 percent and showed relatively long-term physical stability as the leakage was very small after being stored for one month. Therefore, seemed this modified method could prepare high quality SLNs loading lipophilic drugs. It is a simple, available and effective method to produce SLNs.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Materials Science, Nano Pharmaceutical Research Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074 Wuhan, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: DongZhi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: ChangSheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: KaiJin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: ChangHong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D002152:Calorimetry, Differential Scanning; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007834:Lasers; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D008422:Materials Testing; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008863:Microspheres; D015735:Mifepristone / Q000008:administration & dosage; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D010316:Particle Size; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D008055:Lipids; D015735:Mifepristone