• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.233-241
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• 2005

Ursolic acid (UA), a bioactive triterpene acid, has been known to increase collagen content in human skin in addition to other actions such as anti-inflammatory, skin-tumor prevention and anti-invasion. However, it is poorly soluble in water. Therefore, we firstly prepared microemulsion system with benzyl alcohol, ethanol and Cremophor EL, RH 40 and Brij 35 as surfactant in order to increase solubility of UA and then prepared microemulsion was dispersed in o/w cream base for the topical delivery of UA in an effort to improve anti-wrinkle effect. The pseudo-ternary phase diagrams were developed and various microemulsion formulations were prepared using benzyl alcohol as an oil, Cremophor EL, RH 40 and Brij 35 as a surfactant. The droplet size of microemulsions was characterized by dynamic light scattering. The accumulation of VA in the skin from topical cream was evaluated in vitro using hairless mouse skins. The mean droplet size was $26.8{\pm}6.6$ nm for microemulsions II with Cremophor EL. All UA creams showed pseudoplastic flow and hysterisis loop in their rheogram, depending on the type of materials added in topical creams. The in vitro accumulation data demonstrated the UA topical cream prepared with the combination of Poloxamer 407 and Xanthan gum as a copolymer showed higher accumulation percentage than those prepared with either Poloxamer 407 or Xanthan gum. These results suggest that UA topical cream using microemulsion systems may be promising for the topical delivery of UA.

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2000년도 춘계총회 및 학술대회
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• pp.205.1-205.1
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• 2000

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권11호
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• pp.1598-1609
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• 2013

Organochlorine pesticide residues continue to remain as a major environmental threat worldwide. Lindane is an organochlorine pesticide widely used as an acaricide in medicine and agriculture. In the present study, a new lindane-degrading yeast strain, Pseudozyma VITJzN01, was identified as a copious producer of glycolipid biosurfactant. The glycolipid structure and type were elucidated by FTIR, NMR spectroscopy, and GC-MS analysis. The surface activity and stability of the glycolipid was analyzed. The glycolipids, characterized as mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs), exhibited excellent surface active properties and the surface tension of water was reduced to 29 mN/m. The glycolipid was stable over a wide range of pH, temperature, and salinity, showing a very low CMC of 25 mg/l. Bio-microemulsion of olive oil-in-water (O/W) was prepared using the purified biosurfactant without addition of any synthetic cosurfactants, for lindane solubilization and enhanced degradation assay in liquid and soil slurry. The O/W bio-microemulsions enhanced the solubility of lindane up to 40-folds. Degradation of lindane (700 mg/l) by VITJzN01 in liquid medium amended with bio-microemulsions was found to be enhanced by 36% in 2 days, compared with degradation in 12 days in the absence of bio-microemulsions. Lindane-spiked soil slurry incubated with bio-microemulsions also showed 20-40% enhanced degradation compared with the treatment with glycolipids or yeast alone. This is the first report on lindane degradation by Pseudozyma sp., and application of bio-microemulsions for enhanced lindane degradation. MEL-stabilized bio-microemulsions can serve as a potential tool for enhanced remediation of diverse lindane-contaminated environments.

• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.201-207
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• 2012

Oil-in-ethanol (O/E) 마이크로에멀젼을 물에 희석하여 얻은 O/W 나노에멀젼의 성질에 대하여 다른 희석 과정의 영향을 연구하였다. 물/에탄올/비이온성계면활성제/실리콘 오일 계를 모델 계로 선택하였다. 희석과정은 물(또는 마이크로에멀젼)을 마이크로에멀젼(또는 물)에 단계별로 첨가하는 방법으로 구성되었다. O/E 마이크로에멀젼을 물에 첨가하여 혼합하면 30 nm 정도의 입경을 가진 나노에멀젼을 얻을 수 있었다. 반면에 물을 O/E 마이크로에멀젼에 첨가하면 400 nm의 입경을 가진 에멀젼을 얻을 수 있다. 희석 방법이 얻어지는 에멀젼의 성질에 중요한 역할을 하였다. 시간에 따른 나노에멀젼의 입자 변화는 관찰되지 않았으나 입자가 큰 에멀젼은 시간에 따라 입경이 증가하였으며 불안정화 기작은 오스트왈드 라이퍼닝으로 추정되었다.

• 공업화학
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.677-683
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• 2005

AEO계 비이온 계면활성제를 주체로 한 세정제 시스템에서 탄화수소 용제가 단일상의 마이크로에멀젼 형성 및 세정력에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 용제로 사용한 포화탄화수소의 사슬 길이가 길어질수록 마이크로에멀젼을 형성하는 온도 영역이 넓어졌으며, $35{\sim}60^{\circ}C$의 온도 조건에서 첨가한 보조계면활성제 조성에 상관없이 단일상의 ${\mu}E$이 존재하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 특히 본 실험에서 사용한 탄화수소 중에서 사슬 길이가 가장 큰 헥사데칸을 용제로 사용할 경우, 보조계면활성제 이소프로판올을 첨가하지 않은 경우에도 단일상의 O/W ${\mu}E$이 넓은 온도 영역에 걸쳐서 존재하였다. 상평형 실험을 통하여 선정한 단일상의 마이크로에멀젼을 주체로 한 후보 세정제 시료들은 $40^{\circ}C$에서 abietic acid에 대한 우수한 세정력을 나타내는 것을 세정 실험을 통하여 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.37-45
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• 1999

ABSTRACT-A self-microemulsifying drug delivery system (SMEDDS) was developed to enhance the solubility and dissolution rate of poorly water soluble drug, biphenyl dimethyl dicarboxylate, DDB. The system was optimized by evaluating the solubility of DDB and the microemulsion existence range after the preparation of microemulsions with varying compositions of triacetin and surfactant-cosurfactant mixtures (Labrasol as surfactant (S) and the combination of Transcutol, Cremophor RH 40 and Plurol oleique as cosurfactant (CoS)). SMEDDS in this study markedly improved the solubility of DDB in water up to 10 mg/ml and the size of the o/w microemulsion droplets measured by dynamic light scattering showed a narrow monodisperse size distribution with an average diameter less than 50 nm. The microemulsion existing range is increased proportional to the ratio of S/CoS, however, it decreased remarkably as the oil content was more than 20%. In vitro dissolution study of SMEDDS showed a significantly increased dissolution rate of DDB in water (> 12 fold over DDB powder), and SMEDDS also had significantly greater permeability of DDB in Caco-2 cell compared to powders.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제28권9호
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• pp.1097-1102
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• 2005

An O/W microemulsion system was developed to enhance the skin permeability of ace-clofenac. Of the oils studied, Labrafil? M 1944 CS was chosen as the oil phase: of the microemulson, as it showed a good solubilizing capacity. Pseudo-ternary phase diagrams were constructed to obtain the concentration range of oil, surfactant, Cremophor ELP, and co-surfactant, ethanol, for micoemulsion formation. Eight different formulations with various values of oil of $6-30\%$, water of $0-80\%$, and the mixture of surfactant and co-surfactant (at the ratio of 2) of $14-70\%$. The in vitro transdermal permeability of aceclofenac from the microemulsions was evaluated using Franz diffusion cells mounted with rat skin. The level of aceclofenac permeated was analyzed by HPLC and the droplet size' of the microemulsions was characterized using a Zetasizer Nano-ZS. Terpenes were added to the microemulsions at a level of $5\%$, and their effects on the skin permeation of aceclofenac were investigated. The mean diameters of the microemulsions ranged between approximately $10\~100nm$, and the skin permeability of the aceclofenac incorporated into the microemulsion systems was 5-fold higher than that of the ethanol vehicle. Of the various terpenes added, limonene had the best enhancing ability. These results indicate that the microemulsion pystem studied is a promising tool for the percutaneous delivery of aceclofenac.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2003년도 춘계학술발표강연 및 논문개요집
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• pp.220-220
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• 2003

The microencapsulation of droplets or particles within a solid shell leads to the formation of core-shell particles. Microencapsulation provides protection and controlled release of core materials such as drugs, vitamins, enzymes, perfumes, and the like. Such particles have, therefore, found a diverse range of applications in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, cosmetic, and food industries. UV absorbers are widely used for cosmetics to screen out ultra violet (UV) rays which have side effects on human skin. The absorbers are made generally from synthetic organic compounds, which can stimulate the human skins to develop allergic phenomena.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.373-380
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• 2008

In order to develop optimal formulation and iontophoresis condition for the transdermal delivery of levodopa, we have evaluated the effect of two permeation enhancers, ethanol and oleic acid in microemulsion, on transdermal delivery of levodopa. In vitro flux studies were performed at $33^{\circ}C$, using side-by-side diffusion cell and full thickness hairless mouse skin. Current density applied was $0.4\;mA/cm^2$ and current was off after 6 hours application. Levodopa was analysed by HPLC at 280 nm. The o/w microemulsions of oleic acid in buffer solution (pH 2.5 & 4.5) were prepared using oleic acid, Tween 80 and ethanol. The existence of microemulsion regions were investigated in pseudo-ternary phase diagrams. Contrary to our expectation, cumulative amount of levodopa transported from microemulsion (pH 2.5) for 10 hours was similar to that from aqueous solution in all delivery methods (passive, anodal and cathodal). When pH of the micro-emulsion was pH 4.5, cumulative amount of levodopa transported for 10 hours increased about 40% (anodal) to 50% (cathodal), when compared to that from aqueous solution. Flux from pH 4.5 microemulsion showed higher value than that from pH 2.5 in all delivery methods. These results seem to indicate that electroosmosis plays more dominant role than electrorepulsion in the flux of levodopa at pH 2.5. The effect of ethanol on iontophoretic flux was studied using pH 2.5 phosphate buffer solution containing 3% or 5% (v/v) ethanol. Flux enhancement was observed in passive and anodal delivery as the concentration of the ethanol increased. Without ethanol, cathodal delivery showed higher flux than anodal delivery. Anodal delivery increased the cumulative amount of levodopa transported 1.6 fold by 5% ethanol after 10 hours. However, in cathodal delivery, no flux enhancement of levodopa was observed during current application and only marginal increase in cumulative amount transported after 10 hours was observed by 5% ethanol. These results seem to be related to the decrease in dielectric constant of the medium and the lipid extraction of the ethanol, which decrease the electroosmotic flow, and thus decrease the flux. Overall, the results provide important insights into the role of electroosmosis and electrorepulsion in the transport of levodopa through skin, and provide some useful informations for optimal formulation for levodopa.

• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2011

본 총설에서는 나노에멀젼을 제조하기 위한 다양한 유화방법과 나노에멀젼의 화장품 응용에 대해 논의하고자 한다. 나노에멀젼은 입경이 일반적으로 20 ~ 200 nm의 범위에 있으며 입자 분포도 좁은 영역을 보인다. 많은 논문에서 O/W 또는 W/O 나노에멀젼 제조에 있어서 고압을 이용한 분산 방법을 보고하고 있지만 유화과정 중에 일어나는 상전이에 기초한, 응축 또는 저 에너지 유화 방법에 관심이 증가하고 있다. 상 거동 연구 결과에 의하면 나노에멀젼의 입자 크기는 온도나 구성 성분에 의해 유도되는 전상점에서의 계면활성제 상 구조(이중 연속상 마이크로에멀젼 또는 라멜라 액정)에 의해서 지배된다. PIT 방법에 의해서 제조된 나노에멀젼 연구에서 초기 상평형 상태가 단일상인지 다중상인지 관계없이 유화입자의 크기는 마이크로 에멀젼 이중 연속상에 오일이 완전히 가용화됨에 따른다는 것을 보여준다. 나노에멀젼의 안정성은 나노에멀젼의 입자 크기가 작 기 때문에 크리밍, 침전 또는 합일 현상보다 오스트왈드 라이퍼닝에 의해 지배된다. 나노에멀젼은 나노에멀젼 입자를 마이크로 리엑터로 활용하고 모노머를 이용하여 나노 입자를 제조하거나 화장품 등의 유효성분 전달 등에 이용되고 있다. 본 총설에서는 화장품에의 응용에 초점을 맞췄다.