PMID- 31071977 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20231012 IS - 1999-4923 (Print) IS - 1999-4923 (Electronic) IS - 1999-4923 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 5 DP - 2019 May 8 TI - Systemic Design and Evaluation of Ticagrelor-Loaded Nanostructured Lipid Carriers for Enhancing Bioavailability and Antiplatelet Activity. LID - 10.3390/pharmaceutics11050222 [doi] LID - 222 AB - Ticagrelor (TGL), a P2Y(12) receptor antagonist, is classified as biopharmaceutics classification system (BCS) class IV drug due to its poor solubility and permeability, resulting in low oral bioavailability. Nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC) are an efficient delivery system for the improvement of bioavailability of BCS class IV drugs. Hence, we prepared TGL-loaded NLC (TGL-NLC) to enhance the oral bioavailability and antiplatelet activity of TGL with a systemic design approach. The optimized TGL-NLC with Box-Behnken design showed a small particle size of 87.6 nm and high encapsulation efficiency of 92.1%. Scanning electron microscope (SEM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) were performed to investigate the characteristics of TGL-NLC. Furthermore, TGL-NLC exhibited biocompatible cytotoxicity against Caco-2 cells. Cellular uptake of TGL-NLC was 1.56-fold higher than that of raw TGL on Caco-2 cells. In pharmacokinetic study, the oral bioavailability of TGL-NLC was 254.99% higher than that of raw TGL. In addition, pharmacodynamic study demonstrated that the antiplatelet activity of TGL-NLC was superior to that of raw TGL, based on enhanced bioavailability of TGL-NLC. These results suggest that TGL-NLC can be applied for efficient oral absorption and antiplatelet activity of TGL. FAU - Son, Gi-Ho AU - Son GH AD - College of Pharmacy and Institute of Drug Research and Development, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea. kyk2576@naver.com. AD - Present affiliation: Korea United Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., 25-23, Nojangongdan-gil. Jeondong-myeon, Sejong 30011, Korea. kyk2576@naver.com. FAU - Na, Young-Guk AU - Na YG AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-7937-1626 AD - College of Pharmacy and Institute of Drug Research and Development, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea. youngguk@cnu.ac.kr. FAU - Huh, Hyun Wook AU - Huh HW AD - College of Pharmacy and Institute of Drug Research and Development, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea. hhw3573@nate.com. FAU - Wang, Miao AU - Wang M AD - College of Pharmacy and Institute of Drug Research and Development, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea. wmclare@163.com. FAU - Kim, Min-Ki AU - Kim MK AD - College of Pharmacy and Institute of Drug Research and Development, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea. zkzkang@naver.com. FAU - Han, Min-Gu AU - Han MG AD - College of Pharmacy and Institute of Drug Research and Development, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea. linuxfalcon@naver.com. FAU - Byeon, Jin-Ju AU - Byeon JJ AD - College of Pharmacy and Institute of Drug Research and Development, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea. jinju.byeon.cnu@gmail.com. FAU - Lee, Hong-Ki AU - Lee HK AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3670-386X AD - College of Pharmacy and Institute of Drug Research and Development, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea. dvmlhk@gmail.com. FAU - Cho, Cheong-Weon AU - Cho CW AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8390-0132 AD - College of Pharmacy and Institute of Drug Research and Development, Chungnam National University, 99, Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34134, Korea. chocw@cnu.ac.kr. LA - eng GR - 2016R1A2B4011294/National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190508 PL - Switzerland TA - Pharmaceutics JT - Pharmaceutics JID - 101534003 PMC - PMC6572397 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Box-Behnken design OT - antiplatelet activity OT - bioavailability OT - design of experiments OT - nanostructured lipid carrier OT - ticagrelor COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. Gi-Ho Son is employees of Korea United Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. The company had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results. EDAT- 2019/05/11 06:00 MHDA- 2019/05/11 06:01 PMCR- 2019/05/01 CRDT- 2019/05/11 06:00 PHST- 2019/04/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/05/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/05/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/05/11 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/05/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/05/11 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - pharmaceutics11050222 [pii] AID - pharmaceutics-11-00222 [pii] AID - 10.3390/pharmaceutics11050222 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Pharmaceutics. 2019 May 8;11(5):222. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics11050222.