Editor-in-Chief
Hatice Kübra Elçioğlu
Vice Editors
Levent Kabasakal
Esra Tatar
Online ISSN
2630-6344
Publisher
Marmara University
Frequency
Bimonthly (Six issues / year)
Abbreviation
J.Res.Pharm.
Former Name
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
Journal of Research in Pharmacy
2022 , Vol 26 , Issue 5
Preparation and Characterization Studies of Nanofiber and Orodispersable Film Formulations of Enoxolone
1Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
DOI :
10.29228/jrp.216
Enoxolone is a pentacyclic triterpenoid observed from Glycyrrhiza glabra and it has an
antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal effects. However, enoxolone (ENX) has low oral bioavailability due
to a first pass metabolism effect in the intestinal tract, poor intestinal permeability. The aim of this study
was to develop the PVP based orodispersible films (ODFs) containing ENX by electrospinning and solvent
casting methods and to compare in terms of their credibility for orodispersible delivery of ENX through a
variety of in vitro and physical investigations. Physical properties such as thichness, weight variation, tensile
strength, Young's modulus and elongation at break were investigated. Moreover, the in vitro release profile
of ENX from prepared films were characterized in this study. The morphological structures of the prepared
film formulations were examined under scanning electron microscope and the interaction between the ENX,
film and PVP were determined by the FTIR spectroscopy.DSC analysis was performed to understand the
thermal behavior of formulations and components. The results obtained proved that the electrospinning
process can be used to produce ODF formulations with lower disintegration time (≈4.52 min), lower
diameter (≈218.5 nm) and acceptable mechanical strength (≈370.55 MPa). The preliminary results as a proofof-
concept demonstration reported here will shed a new light on the future design and application of ODFs
by electrospinning method.
Keywords :
nanofiber, enoxolone, edible film, electrospinning