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Microparticles for cell encapsulation and colonic delivery produced by membrane emulsification

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posted on 2016-12-15, 11:02 authored by Serena Morelli, Richard Holdich, Marijana DragosavacMarijana Dragosavac
Membrane Emulsification was used to encapsulate yeast cells and form microparticles. W/O emulsions were produced using a Dispersion Cell; the aqueous phase consisted of gelatin/chitosan, or pure gelatin solution, containing yeast cells, the continuous phase was 2 wt% of SPAN 80 in kerosene. Varying the dispersed phase flux (from 70 to 350 L h- m-2) and the shear stress (from 17 to 1 Pa) applied on the membrane surface droplet sizes of between 60 and 340 µm were produced, with a coefficient of variation of 17% under the best operating conditions. The liquid drops were loaded with increasing amount of yeast (3.14×107 to 3.14×108 cells/mL). The stability and uniformity of the emulsions was independent of the cell concentration. PTFE coated hydrophobic membrane produced smaller W/O drops compared to FAS coated membranes. The liquid polymeric droplets were solidified in solid particles using thermal gelation and/or ionic crosslinking, obtaining yeast encapsulated particles sized ~100 µm. The pH sensitive polymer, Eudragit S100, was used as a coating to create gastro resistant particles suitable for intestinal-colonic targeted release. Viability of the released yeast cells was demonstrated using fluorescence probes and checking cell glucose metabolism with time.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

Journal of Membrane Science

Volume

524

Pages

377-388

Citation

MORELLI, S., HOLDICH, R. and DRAGOSAVAC, M., 2017. Microparticles for cell encapsulation and colonic delivery produced by membrane emulsification. Journal of Membrane Science, 524, pp.377-388.

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© Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-11-16

Publication date

2016-11-24

Copyright date

2017

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Journal of Membrane Science and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2016.11.058.

ISSN

0376-7388

Language

  • en