El-Shahed Sherouk A, Hassan Doaa H, El-Nabarawi Mohamed A, El-Setouhy Doaa Ahmed, Abdellatif Menna M
Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Manufacturing, Misr University for Science and Technology, Giza 12566, Egypt.
Department of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University El-Kasr El-Aini Street, Cairo 11562, Egypt.
Polymers (Basel). 2024 Aug 7;16(16):2240. doi: 10.3390/polym16162240.
This study was designed to formulate a polymeric mixed micelle (PMM) formulation to sustainably release fexofenadine (FEX) to treat allergic conjunctivitis effectively. A 3 factorial design was employed where the studied factors were PL90G amount (X) and Pluronic (F127 and P123) mixture ratio (X), and the dependent variables were entrapment efficacy (EE, Y, %), particle size (PS, Y, nm), zeta potential (ZP, Y, mV), and the percent of drug released after 6 h (Q6h, Y, %). The optimized formula was blended with a hydrogel base to develop an FEX-PMM hydrogel, where the safety and efficiency of this hydrogel were evaluated using in vivo studies. The EE% of FEX-PMM ranged from 62.15 ± 2.75 to 90.25 ± 1.48%, the PS from 291.35 ± 6.43 to 467.95 ± 3.60 nm, the ZP from -5.41 ± 0.12 to -9.23 ± 0.23 mV, and the Q6h from 50.27 ± 1.11 to 95.38 ± 0.92%. The Draize test results confirmed the safety of the FEX-PMM hydrogel. Furthermore, the FEX-PMM hydrogel showed rapid recovery in animals with induced allergic conjunctivitis compared to the free drug hydrogel. These results assure PMM's capability to deliver FEX to the conjunctival surface in a sustained pattern, consequently achieving better therapeutic outcomes.
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