Formulation and optimisation of novel transfersomes for sustained release of local anaesthetic

Bnyan, Ruba, Khan, Iftikhar, Ehtezazi, Touraj, Saleem, Imran, Gordon, Sarah, O’Neill, Francis and Roberts, Matthew (2019) Formulation and optimisation of novel transfersomes for sustained release of local anaesthetic. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 71(10), pp. 1508-1519. ISSN (print) 0022-3573

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the effect of formulation parameters on the preparation of transfersomes as sustained-release delivery systems for lidocaine and to develop and validate a new high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for analysis. Taguchi design of experiment (DOE) was used to optimise lidocaine-loaded transfersomes in terms of phospholipid, edge activator (EA) and phospholipid : EA ratio. Transfersomes were characterised for size, polydispersity index (PDI), charge and entrapment efficiency (%EE). A HPLC method for lidocaine quantification was optimised and validated using a mobile phase of 30%v/v PBS (0.01 m) : 70%v/v Acetonitrile at a flow rate of 1 ml/min, detected at 255 nm with retention time of 2.84 min. The release of lidocaine from selected samples was assessed in vitro. Transfersomes were 200 nm in size, with PDI ~ 0.3. HPLC method was valid for linearity (0.1–2 mg/ml, R2 0.9999), accuracy, intermediate precision and repeatability according to ICH guidelines. The %EE was between 44% and 56% and dependent on the formulation parameters. Taguchi DOE showed the effect of factors was in the rank order : lipid : EA ratio ˃ EA type ˃ lipid type. Optimised transfersomes sustained the release of lidocaine over 24 h. Sustained-release, lidocaine-loaded transfersomes were successfully formulated and optimised using a DOE approach, and a new HPLC method for lidocaine analysis was developed and validated.

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