[Preparation of nanostructured lipid carriers loaded with supercritical carbon dioxide fluid extraction of Xionggui powder]

Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2009 Jan; 34(2): 148-51Chen Y, Chen F, Wei W, Zhang X, Feng Q, Jin ROBJECTIVE: To study the preparation ofnanostructured lipid carriers loaded with supercritical carbon dioxide fluid extraction of Xionggui powder. METHOD: Prepared nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC) loaded with supercritical carbon dioxide fluid extraction of Xionggui powder (XG-CO2-SFE) with a microemulsion ultrasonication method , established the best prescription of XG-CO2-SFE-NLC by orthogonal design methods with entrapment efficiency of nanoparticles as index, and investigated their physicochemical characterizations. RESULT: The best prescription was m(phospholipid) : m(S-40) : m(lipid carriers) = 5 : 2 : 1, the entrapment efficiency of nanopartices was 86.8%, results revealed that nanoparticles were sphere like with the mean size of 92.6 nm and the mean zeta potential was -20.68 mV. CONCLUSION: The prep aration method of the XG-CO2-SFE-NLC is appropriate.