PMID- 34487937 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211109 LR - 20211109 IS - 1095-7103 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9797 (Linking) VI - 606 IP - Pt 2 DP - 2022 Jan 15 TI - Concentration and composition dependent aggregation of Pluronic- and Poly-(2-oxazolin)-Efavirenz formulations in biorelevant media. PG - 1179-1192 LID - S0021-9797(21)01268-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.08.040 [doi] AB - Many drugs and drug candidates are poorly water-soluble. Intestinal fluids play an important role in their solubilization. However, the interactions of intestinal fluids with polymer excipients, drugs and their formulations are not fully understood. Here, diffusion ordered spectroscopy (DOSY) and nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (NOESY), complemented by cryo-TEM were employed to address this. Efavirenz (EFV) as model drug, the triblock copolymers Pluronic(R) F-127 (PF127) and poly(2-oxazoline) based pMeOx-b-pPrOzi-b-pMeOx (pOx/pOzi) and their respective formulations were studied in simulated fed-state intestinal fluid (FeSSIF). For the individual polymers, the bile interfering nature of PF127 was confirmed and pure pOx/pOzi was newly classified as non-interfering. A different and more complex behaviour was however observed if EFV was involved. PF127/EFV formulations in FeSSIF showed concentration dependent aggregation with separate colloids at low formulation concentrations, a merging of individual particles at the solubility limit of EFV in FeSSIF and joint aggregates above this concentration. In the case of pOx/pOzi/EFV formulations, coincident diffusion coefficients for pOx/pOzi, lipids and EFV indicate joint aggregates across the studied concentration range. This demonstrates that separate evaluation of polymers and drugs in biorelevant media is not sufficient and their mixtures need to be studied to learn about concentration and composition dependent behaviour. CI - Copyright (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Endres, Sebastian AU - Endres S AD - Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Wurzburg, Am Hubland, Wurzburg 97074, Germany. FAU - Karaev, Emil AU - Karaev E AD - Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Wurzburg, Am Hubland, Wurzburg 97074, Germany. FAU - Hanio, Simon AU - Hanio S AD - Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Wurzburg, Am Hubland, Wurzburg 97074, Germany. FAU - Schlauersbach, Jonas AU - Schlauersbach J AD - Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Wurzburg, Am Hubland, Wurzburg 97074, Germany. FAU - Kraft, Christian AU - Kraft C AD - Rudolf Virchow Center, Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg 97080, Germany. FAU - Rasmussen, Tim AU - Rasmussen T AD - Rudolf Virchow Center, Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg 97080, Germany; Biocenter, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg 97074, Germany. FAU - Luxenhofer, Robert AU - Luxenhofer R AD - Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Helsinki University, Helsinki 00014, Finland. FAU - Bottcher, Bettina AU - Bottcher B AD - Rudolf Virchow Center, Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg 97080, Germany; Biocenter, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg 97074, Germany. FAU - Meinel, Lorenz AU - Meinel L AD - Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Wurzburg, Am Hubland, Wurzburg 97074, Germany; Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Biology (HIRI), Wuerzburg DE-97070, Germany. FAU - Poppler, Ann-Christin AU - Poppler AC AD - Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Wurzburg, Am Hubland, Wurzburg 97074, Germany. Electronic address: ann-christin.poeppler@uni-wuerzburg.de. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210810 PL - United States TA - J Colloid Interface Sci JT - Journal of colloid and interface science JID - 0043125 RN - 0 (Alkynes) RN - 0 (Benzoxazines) RN - 0 (Cyclopropanes) RN - 0 (Excipients) RN - 106392-12-5 (Poloxamer) RN - JE6H2O27P8 (efavirenz) SB - IM MH - Alkynes MH - *Benzoxazines MH - Cyclopropanes MH - Excipients MH - *Poloxamer MH - Solubility OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bile colloids OT - Concentation dependent interaction OT - DOSY OT - Drug-Polymer Formulations COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2021/09/07 06:00 MHDA- 2021/11/10 06:00 CRDT- 2021/09/06 20:14 PHST- 2021/05/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/07/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/08/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/09/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/11/10 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/09/06 20:14 [entrez] AID - S0021-9797(21)01268-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.08.040 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Colloid Interface Sci. 2022 Jan 15;606(Pt 2):1179-1192. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.08.040. Epub 2021 Aug 10.