Ultrasound mediates the release of curcumin from microemulsions

Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
Mei-Hwa LeeJames L Thomas

Abstract

Ultrasound is a powerful noninvasive modality for biomedical imaging, and holds much promise for noninvasive drug delivery enhancement and targeting. However, the optimal design of sound sensitive carriers is still poorly understood. In this study, curcumin, an important natural antioxidant and anticancer compound, was stably entrapped into microemulsion droplets with average size 20-35 nm. To release curcumin, low frequency (40 kHz) ultrasound at an intensity of 3.8 or 9.8 W/cm2 was applied to the microemulsions, using a probe sonicator. On insonation, much of the curcumin was released from the microemulsions and formed insoluble aggregates, as evidenced by decreased UV-vis absorption at 420 nm. The initial release rate (assayed by the rate of change of absorption) was as high as 0.11 microg/s (1.87%/sec) in phosphate buffered saline solution at neutral pH, but decreased at acidic pH. Interestingly, lower curcumin loading led to a more rapid release under insonation. Measurements of emulsion droplet size implicate droplet reorganization (fusion or fission) as an important contributing mechanism for the ultrasonic release of this compound. Although cargo in microemulsions is partitioned, rather than encapsulated (as in, for exa...Continue Reading

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