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Oversaturated solutions of drug in hydroxypropylcyclodextrins: Parenteral preparation of pancratistatin by Juan J. Torres-Labandeira; Paul Davignon; Josef Pitha is a Chemistry article available to read on EtoBox.
The effect of 15 cyclodextrin derivatives (polar-electroneutral, cationic, anionic, and lipophilic) and of three 2-hydroxypropyldigitonins on the solubility of pancratistatin, an anticancer drug, was evaluated. The direct solubilizations into aqueous solutions were invariably low (0.1-1.2 mg/mL compared with 50 micrograms/mL in water). Complexes of pancratistatin with hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin were more stable (Kapp 153 M-1) than those with hydroxypropyl-gamma-cyclodextrin (Kapp 108 M-1). Acceptable preparations were made by dissolution of pancratistatin in a large excess (50x) of hydroxypropylcyclodextrin by ammonia and then freeze drying to ammonia-free preparations. In these preparations, both the inclusion and interdispersion phenomena were operative, and the preparations dissolved rapidly forming clear solutions of pancratistatin of concentrations up to 9 mg/mL. These solutions were oversaturated and while those based on hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin precipitated within 1 h; those based on hydroxypropyl-gamma-cyclodextrin were stable for at least 4 h when kept in a plastic container (i.e., time sufficient for potential use in parenteral preparations).
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- Author
- Juan J. Torres-Labandeira; Paul Davignon; Josef Pitha
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0022-3549)
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Chemistry (Physical Sciences)