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Design of Experiments Approach for the Development of a Validated Method to Determine the Exenatide Content in Poly(Lactide-Co-Glycolide) Microspheres Publisher Pubmed



Sheikhi M1 ; Sharifzadeh M2 ; Hennink WE3 ; Firoozpour L4 ; Hajimahmoodi M1 ; Khoshayand MR1 ; Shirangi M1
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Source: European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics Published:2023


Abstract

Due to the lack of pharmacopeia guidelines for injectable microspheres based on poly (D, L-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA), an internal method validation is a critical prerequisite for quality assurance. One of the essential issues of developing peptide-based drugs loaded PLGA microspheres is the precise determination of the amount of peptide drug entrapped in the microspheres. The aim of this study is the development and optimization of a method for measuring the drug content loading of PLGA microspheres using exenatide as a model peptide drug. Exenatide-loaded PLGA microspheres were prepared by a double emulsion solvent evaporation method. The extraction method to determine exenatide content in microspheres was optimized using Design of Experiments (DoE) approach. After the initial screening of six factors, using Fractional Factorial design (FFD), four of them, including type of organic solvent, buffer/organic solvent ratio (v/v), shaking time and pH, exhibited significant effects on the response, namely the exenatide loading, and a Box-Behnken design (BBD) was subsequently applied to obtain its optimum level. The optimum level for organic solvent volume, buffer/organic solvent ratio, shaking time, and pH were 4 ml, 1, 5.6 hrs, and pH 6, respectively. The exenatide content in microspheres under these conditions was 6.4 ± 0.0 (%w/w), whereas a value of 6.1% was predicted by the derived equation. This excellent agreement between the actual and the predicted value demonstrates that the fitted model can thus be used to determine the exenatide content. © 2023 Elsevier B.V.
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