PMID- 31415872 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200127 LR - 20200127 IS - 1873-3476 (Electronic) IS - 0378-5173 (Linking) VI - 569 DP - 2019 Oct 5 TI - Stabilization of HSV-2 viral vaccine candidate by spray drying. PG - 118615 LID - S0378-5173(19)30660-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.118615 [doi] AB - This work demonstrates that an HSV-2 candidate vaccine can be thermostabilized by spray drying to reduce cold chain demands. This work is also to optimize the process responses by varying spray dry parameters for pre-screened suitable excipients; and to determine the validity of current prescreening techniques. Vaccine activity losses were measured by in vitro plaque forming assay with Vero cell line. An accelerated storage condition of 45  degrees C for 10 days was used to determine spray dried sample stability. Prescreening studies demonstrated that trehalose and sucrose were superior to other tested excipients spray dry thermal stabilization of HSV-2. Subsequent optimization by design of experiments (DOE) of activity responses to spray dry parameter changes demonstrated significant differences between trehalose and sucrose for stability of the viral vaccine. Model parameters included the drying conditions inlet temperature, spray gas flow rate, and solids concentration for the model responses of vaccine stabilization. Trehalose was an effective and robust stabilizing excipient for spray drying HSV-2 vaccine. In contrast, stabilization by sucrose was greatly dependent on the spray dry process parameters. These DOE differences indicated inadequate excipient selection by prescreening methods and the variability demonstrated current prescreening techniques may not be adequate for determining optimal excipients. CI - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - LeClair, Daniel A AU - LeClair DA AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L7, Canada. FAU - Li, Lillian AU - Li L AD - Bio-Process Research & Development Department, Sanofi-Pasteur Ltd., Toronto, Ontario M2R 3T4, Canada. FAU - Rahman, Nausheen AU - Rahman N AD - Bio-Process Research & Development Department, Sanofi-Pasteur Ltd., Toronto, Ontario M2R 3T4, Canada. FAU - Cranston, Emily D AU - Cranston ED AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L7, Canada; Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2360 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada. FAU - Xing, Zhou AU - Xing Z AD - McMaster Immunology Research Centre & Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L7, Canada. FAU - Thompson, Michael R AU - Thompson MR AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L7, Canada. Electronic address: mthomps@mcmaster.ca. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190812 PL - Netherlands TA - Int J Pharm JT - International journal of pharmaceutics JID - 7804127 RN - 0 (Excipients) RN - 0 (Viral Vaccines) RN - 57-50-1 (Sucrose) RN - B8WCK70T7I (Trehalose) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Chlorocebus aethiops MH - Desiccation MH - Drug Compounding/methods MH - Drug Stability MH - Excipients/administration & dosage MH - Herpesvirus 2, Human/*immunology MH - Sucrose/administration & dosage MH - Trehalose/administration & dosage MH - Vero Cells MH - Viral Vaccines/*administration & dosage OTO - NOTNLM OT - DOE OT - Formulation OT - HSV-2 OT - Optimization OT - Spray dry OT - Stabilization OT - Vaccine EDAT- 2019/08/16 06:00 MHDA- 2020/01/28 06:00 CRDT- 2019/08/16 06:00 PHST- 2019/05/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/07/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/08/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/08/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/01/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/08/16 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0378-5173(19)30660-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.118615 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Pharm. 2019 Oct 5;569:118615. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2019.118615. Epub 2019 Aug 12.