Method to Produce Curcumin Oil-in-Water Nanoemulsions as Templates for Drug Carriers
Received Date: Sep 14, 2016 / Accepted Date: Oct 05, 2016 / Published Date: Oct 12, 2016
Abstract
Curcumin has a wide spectrum of biological and pharmacological activities, which could be better exploited in numerous medical applications if it were not for its poor water-solubility. In this study, we describe a new method to improve curcumin solubility, using a combination of paraffin oil and ethanol. Further, we describe a systematic and efficient procedure to develop a formulation and a scalable mixing method in order to produce curcumin loaded oilin- water nanoemulsions that can be used as nanocapsule templates with potential biomedical applications.
Keywords: Curcumin; Solubility; Nanoemulsion; Formulation; Mixing
Citation: Marin E, Briceño MI, George CC (2016) Method to Produce Curcumin Oil-in-Water Nanoemulsions as Templates for Drug Carriers. J Biotechnol Biomater 6:247. Doi: 10.4172/2155-952X.1000247
Copyright: © 2016 Marin E, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
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