PMID- 32723273 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211021 LR - 20211021 IS - 1875-5704 (Electronic) IS - 1567-2018 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 2 DP - 2021 TI - Quetiapine Fumarate Loaded Nanostructured Lipid Carrier for Enhancing Oral Bioavailability: Design, Development and Pharmacokinetic Assessment. PG - 184-198 LID - 10.2174/1567201817999200728135119 [doi] AB - AIMS: The study aimed at developing and characterizing Nanostructured Lipid Carriers (NLC) of Quetiapine Fumarate (QF) by Design of Experiment (DoE) for the enhancement of bioavailability. BACKGROUND: QF, an anti-psychotic drug, has an oral bioavailability of 9% due to hepatic first- pass metabolism necessitating the use of high doses. Its side effects are dose -related and enhancement in bioavailability would result in minimization of side effects. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was the enhancement of bioavailability of the NLC of QF by preferential lymphatic uptake. METHODS: Hot emulsification-ultrasonication was the method of formulation using PrecirolATO5 and Oleic acid as solid and liquid lipids respectively. Poloxamer188 and Phospholipon90G were used as surfactant and stabilizer respectively. Solid:liquid lipid ratio and Phospholipon90G amount were independent variables and percent Entrapment Efficiency (%EE), Particle Size (PS) dependent variables during optimization by Central Composite Design. RESULTS: The optimized formulation showed a %EE of 77.21%, PS of 140.2 nm and surface charge of - 19.9mV. Higuchi kinetic model was followed during the in-vitro release. TEM revealed spherical, smooth nanoparticles. A pharmacokinetic study in rats showed AUC0-infinity of QF-NLC to be 3.93 times that of QF in suspension, suggesting significant enhancement in bioavailability. An increase in AUC0-infinity in cycloheximide untreated rats' group of QF-NLC by 2.43 times as compared to cycloheximide treated group, confirmed lymphatic absorption of QF- NLC. CONCLUSION: The results validated DoE as an appropriate tool for developing QF loaded NLC and proved NLC to be a promising delivery system for the enhancement of oral bioavailability of QF. CI - Copyright(c) Bentham Science Publishers; For any queries, please email at epub@benthamscience.net. FAU - Agarwal, Shweta AU - Agarwal S AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, IKG Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, Punjab, India. FAU - HariKumar, S L AU - HariKumar SL AD - CUJ, Ranchi, India. FAU - Negi, Poonam AU - Negi P AD - School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shoolini University, Solan, H.P, India. FAU - Upadhyay, Navneet AU - Upadhyay N AD - School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shoolini University, Solan, H.P, India. FAU - Garg, Rajeev AU - Garg R AD - Department of Pharmaceutics, Amar Shaheed Baba Ajit Singh Jujhar Singh Memorial, College of Pharmacy, Bela, Ropar, Punjab, India. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United Arab Emirates TA - Curr Drug Deliv JT - Current drug delivery JID - 101208455 RN - 0 (Drug Carriers) RN - 0 (Lipids) RN - 2S3PL1B6UJ (Quetiapine Fumarate) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Drug Carriers MH - Lipids/chemistry MH - *Nanoparticles MH - *Nanostructures MH - Particle Size MH - Quetiapine Fumarate MH - Rats OTO - NOTNLM OT - NLC OT - Quetiapine fumarate OT - bioavailability OT - nanostructured lipid carrier OT - pharmacokinetic OT - phospholipon90G EDAT- 2020/07/30 06:00 MHDA- 2023/02/25 06:00 CRDT- 2020/07/30 06:00 PHST- 2020/03/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/04/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/05/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/07/30 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/02/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/07/30 06:00 [entrez] AID - CDD-EPUB-108570 [pii] AID - 10.2174/1567201817999200728135119 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Drug Deliv. 2021;18(2):184-198. doi: 10.2174/1567201817999200728135119.