Turbidity spectroscopy for characterization of submicroscopic drug carriers, such as nanoparticles and lipid vesicles: Size determination

Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2204-2222

  Elsayed, Mustafa M A ^a,b   Cevc, Gregor ^c  

^a IDEA AG   (Germany)

^b Alexandria University Faculty of Pharmacy   (Egypt)

^c Advanced Treatments Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous monitoring; Drug delivery; Light scattering; Product quality control; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

CHOLIC ACID; DRUG CARRIER; NANOPARTICLE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID BILAYER THICKNESS; LIPID VESICLE; LIPID VESICLE LAMELLARITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; POLYDISPERSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYLEIGH GANS DEBYE APPROXIMATION; REFRACTION INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY; SUSPENSION; THICKNESS; TURBIDIMETRY; TURBIDITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; VISCOSITY; WAVELENGTH EXPONENT SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DRUG CARRIERS; LIGHT; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; UNILAMELLAR LIPOSOMES;

EID: 80054761984     PISSN: 07248741     EISSN: 1573904X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11095-011-0448-z     Document Type: Article

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