PMID- 17407809 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20070807 LR - 20131121 IS - 0939-6411 (Print) IS - 0939-6411 (Linking) VI - 66 IP - 3 DP - 2007 Jun TI - Solid lipid microparticles containing the sunscreen agent, octyl-dimethylaminobenzoate: effect of the vehicle. PG - 483-7 AB - Solid lipid microparticles (SLMs) loaded with the sunscreen agent, octyl-dimethylaminobenzoate (ODAB), were prepared in order to achieve enhanced sunscreen photostability. The microparticles were produced by the melt dispersion technique using glyceryl behenate as lipidic material and poloxamer 188 as the emulsifier. The obtained SLMs showed proper features in terms of morphology, size distribution (1.67-15.81 microm) and ODAB loading (16.15+/-0.11%, w/w). The sunscreen release from the SLMs was slower than its dissolution rate and the photodecomposition of ODAB was markedly decreased (>51.3%) by encapsulation into the lipid microparticles. The efficacy of the SLM carrier system was also evaluated after their introduction in model topical formulations (i.e., hydrogel and oil-in-water emulsion). Further in vitro release measurements, performed using Franz diffusion cells with polycarbonate membranes, indicated that the retention capacity of the microparticles was lost after their incorporation into the emulsion, whereas it was retained in the hydrogel. Moreover, the SLMs achieved a reduction of the sunscreen photodegradation in the hydrogel vehicle (the ODAB loss decreased from 87.4% to 59.1%), whereas no significant photoprotective effect was observed in the emulsion. Therefore, the efficacy of the ODAB-loaded SLMs was markedly affected by the vehicle. FAU - Tursilli, Rosanna AU - Tursilli R AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Italy. FAU - Piel, Geraldine AU - Piel G FAU - Delattre, Luc AU - Delattre L FAU - Scalia, Santo AU - Scalia S LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20070228 PL - Netherlands TA - Eur J Pharm Biopharm JT - European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics : official journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik e.V JID - 9109778 RN - 0 (Fatty Acids) RN - 0 (Pharmaceutical Vehicles) RN - 0 (Sunscreening Agents) RN - 0 (octyl-dimethylaminobenzoate) RN - 106392-12-5 (Poloxamer) RN - 18641-57-1 (glyceryl behenate) RN - A49L8E13FD (p-Dimethylaminoazobenzene) SB - IM MH - Drug Stability MH - Fatty Acids/*administration & dosage MH - Pharmaceutical Vehicles MH - Photolysis MH - Poloxamer/*administration & dosage MH - Sunscreening Agents/*administration & dosage/chemistry MH - p-Dimethylaminoazobenzene/administration & dosage/*analogs & derivatives/chemistry EDAT- 2007/04/05 09:00 MHDA- 2007/08/08 09:00 CRDT- 2007/04/05 09:00 PHST- 2006/11/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2007/02/14 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2007/02/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2007/04/05 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/08/08 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/04/05 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0939-6411(07)00079-3 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ejpb.2007.02.017 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur J Pharm Biopharm. 2007 Jun;66(3):483-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2007.02.017. Epub 2007 Feb 28.