'American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)'
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Abstract
Fast-dissolving delivery systems (FDDS) have received increasing attention in
the last years. Oral drug delivery is still the preferred route for the administration of
pharmaceutical ingredients. Nevertheless, some patients, e.g. children or elderly people, have
difficulties in swallowing solid tablets. In this work, gelatin membranes were produced by
electrospinning, containing an encapsulated therapeutic deep-eutectic solvent (THEDES)
composed by choline chloride/mandelic acid, in a 1:2 molar ratio. A gelatin solution (30% w/
v) with 2% (v/v) of THEDES was used to produce electrospun fibers and the experimental
parameters were optimized. Due to the high surface area of polymer fibers, this type of
construct has wide applicability. With no cytotoxicity effect, and showing a fast-dissolving
release profile in PBS, the gelatin fibers with encapsulated THEDES seem to have promising
applications in the development of new drug delivery systems.The research leading to these results has received
funding from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
(FCT) through the projects ENIGMA - PTDC/EQU-EPR/
121491/2010 and UID/CTM/50025/2013, LAQVREQUIMTE:
UID/QUI/50006/2013, UCIBIO-REQUIMTE:
UID/Multi/04378/2013 (co-financed by the ERDF under the
PT2020 Partnership Agreement [POCI-01-0145-FEDER-
007728]) and by FEDER through the COMPETE 2020
Programme. Marta Martins is grateful for financial support
from FCT through the grant BIM/PTDC/EQUEPR/121491/
2010/ENIGMA. This research has also received funding from
the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/
2007-2013) under grant agreement number REGPOTCT2012-316331-POLARIS and from the project BNovel
smart and biomimetic materials for innovative regenerative medicine approaches^ RL1 - ABMR - NORTE-01-0124- FEDER-000016) co-financed by North Portugal Regional
Operational Programme (ON.2 – O Novo Norte), under the
National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), through
the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
