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Advanced Materials Science and Technology Vol 5 Issue 2 2023
DOI: 10.37155/2717-526X-0502-2
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
Open Access
Tailored Non-ionic Surfactant Vesicles of Cyclosporine
for the Treatment of Psoriasis: Formulation, Ex-Vivo
and In-Vivo Investigation-Application of Box-Behnken
Design
Peeyush Bhardwaj
1
, Purnima Tripathi
2*
, Sonia Pandey
3
, Deepti Chaurasia
4
and Purushottam Ramchandra Patil
5
1
Department of Pharmacy, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, U.P. 284128, India.
2
B.S. Anangpuria Institute of Pharmacy, Alampur, Ballabgarh - Sohna Major District Road, Faridabad, 121004,
Haryana, India.
3
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Rama University, Mandhana, Kanpur, U.P. 209217, India.
4
Nkbr College of Pharmacy And Research Centre, Meerut, U.P. 245206, India.
5
Government College of Pharmacy, Osmanpura, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
*Correspondence to: Purnima Tripathi, B.S. Anangpuria Institute of Pharmacy, Alampur, Ballabgarh - Sohna
Major District Road, Faridabad, 121004, Haryana, India. Email: Tripathi.purnima@gmail.com
Received: August 15, 2023; Accepted: November 20, 2023; Published Online: November 30, 2023
Citation: Bhardwaj P, Tripathi P, Pandey S, Chaurasia D and Ramchandra Patil P. Tailored Non-ionic Surfactant
Vesicles of Cyclosporine for the Treatment of Psoriasis: Formulation, Ex-Vivo and In-Vivo Investigation-
Application of Box-Behnken Design. Advanced Materials Science and Technology, 2023;5(2):0520492.
https://doi.org/10.37155/2717-526X-0502-2
Abstract: Psoriasis is an autoimmune skin disease characterized by hyperproliferation of keratinocytes.
Topical delivery of drugs is mostly favored for the treatment of mild psoriatic conditions. But permeation of
drugs across psoriatic skin is too complex. Niosomes are the non-ionic surfactant vesicles, reported to enhance
dermal drug delivery. In the present work, cyclosporine niosomes were, formulated, optimized, and evaluated
in-vitro to boost the dermal penetration of cyclosporine for the better management of psoriasis. Niosomes were
developed using the thin film hydration method. Formulated niosomes were characterized and optimized for
their percent encapsulation efficiency, size, and polydispersity index using Box-Behnken design. Optimized
formulation was developed using cholesterol and span 60 (1:2.2), 30 minutes of hydration time, and 30 mg of
cyclosporine. Niosomes’ size, polydispersity index, and percent encapsulation efficiency were in the scale of
180.5 ± 11.16 nm, 0.156, and 93.2% ± 2.5%, respectively. The ex-vivo studies were carried out using excised
goat skin. In the ex-vivo permeation experiments, though the percent drug permeated was low but the quantity