title: GMP production of liposomes--a new industrial approach.
abstract: A new scalable liposome production system is presented, which is based on the ethanol injection technique. The system permits liposome manufacture regardless of production scale, as scale is determined only by free disposable vessel volumes. Once the parameters are defined, an easy scale up can be performed by just changing the process vessels. These vessels are fully sterilizeable and all raw materials are transferred into the sanitized and sterilized system via 0.2 microm filters to guarantee an aseptic production. Liposome size can be controlled by the local lipid concentration at the injection point depending on process parameters like injection pressure, lipid concentration and injection rate. These defined process parameters are furthermore responsible for highly reproducible results with respect to vesicle diameters and encapsulation rates Compared to other technologies like the film method which is normally followed by size reduction through high pressure homogenization, ultrasonication or extrusion, no mechanical forces are needed to generate homogeneous and narrow distributed liposomes. Another important advantage of this method is the suitability for the entrapment of many different drug substances such as large hydrophilic proteins by passive encapsulation, small amphiphilic drugs by a one step remote loading technique or membrane association of antigens for vaccination approaches.
authors.affiliation: Polymun Scientific Immunbiologische Forschung GmbH, Vienna, Austria. Andreas.Wagner@boku.ac.at
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: Mirko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Platzgummer
authors.forename: Günther
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kreismayr
authors.forename: Heribert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Quendler
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stiegler
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ferko
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vecera
authors.forename: Karola
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vorauer-Uhl
authors.forename: Hermann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Katinger
mesh_terms: D008081:Liposomes; D010316:Particle Size; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D008081:Liposomes