Solubility enhancing lipid-based vehicles for artemether and lumefantrine destined for the possible treatment of induced malaria and inflammation: in vitro and in vivo evaluations

Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences(2024)

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The lipid self-emulsifying system has been advanced as a promising delivery vehicle for improving the solubility and bioavailability of artemether and lumefantrine. However, the observed kinetic instability (propensity of lumefantrine to rapid crystallisation from nano-scale droplets) in aqueous acid has impelled some researchers to incorporate surfactants/solubilizers in the dissolution medium prior to dissolution studies. Thus, in our present work, we sought to prepare micro/large nano-scale (> 100 nm) and yet kinetically stable lumefantrine lipid self-emulsifying system (that would not require an external drug dissolution enhancing agent in the dissolution medium) and palm kernel oil-based 100 nm kinetically stable artemether lipid self-emulsifying system with rapid emulsification time. COVID-19 and Plasmodium falciparum-infected Africans with previous long exposure to malaria have manifested attenuated inflammatory cytokines more than malaria-naive patients. Therefore, the ingestion of artemether-lumefantrine with enhanced solubility may further promote blunting of cytokines. Therefore, this work was aimed at preparing (< 100 nm) stable artemether and aqueous acid-stable micro/large nano-scale (> 100 nm) lumefantrine lipid self-emulsifying system destined for improved antimalarial and anti-inflammatory activities. The droplet sizes of all the liquid artemether and lumefantrine formulations were between 8.95–39.88 and 1018–4195 nm, respectively. The loading efficiency for all the formulations was, between 72.91 ± 2.89 and 100.00 ± 0.29
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Lipid self-emulsifying system (LSES),Artemether (ART),Lumefantrine (LUM),Neusilin FH2,Anti-malarial,Anti-inflammatory
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