Ravish Sahu, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Ashok Kumar, S. Sahu
{"title":"Formulation and Evaluation of Gel Containing Nigella sativa Seed Extract\u0000Loaded Transferosomes for Effective Treatment of Psoriasis","authors":"Ravish Sahu, Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Ashok Kumar, S. Sahu","doi":"10.2174/0124054615251738231211080244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/0124054615251738231211080244","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000Psoriasis vulgaris is an autoimmune associated skin disease causing\u0000plaques or scales formation where the skin cells form quicker than in their typical life cycle. The\u0000phenolic phytoconstituents reported in Nigella sativa are effective for the treatment of skin disorders. Transfersomes is an emerging nanoencapsulation drug delivery approach which can squeeze\u0000themselves due to its elastic nature as an intact vesicle across narrow pores. It improves the potency\u0000of topical formulations with higher permeation efficiencies compared to other vesicular drug delivery systems.\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000This research work focused to prepare Nigella sativa or black seed extract loaded transfersomes as nanoformulation and further incorporating them in the gel system to give improved\u0000therapeutic efficacy due to their self-regulating and self-optimizing capabilities.\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000The phenolic content of Nigella sativa or black seed was extracted in ethanol and the\u0000solvent was removed using a vacuum with suitable storage conditions at 22ºC. Transfersomes of\u0000ethanol extract were prepared by thin layer hydration method and further incorporated into gel formulations. The ant-psoriasis activity of prepared gel formulation was performed with histopathology\u0000study in the Imiquimod induced albino rat model.\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000A nanoformulation prepared with 0.85 mg lecithin and 0.10 mg tween 80 has the highest\u0000entrapment efficiency. The entrapment efficiency, vesicle size, polydispersity index and zeta potential of optimized transferosomes batch were found to be 69.3 ± 2.6%, 178 ± 11 nm, 1.1 ± 0.2, -29.4\u0000mV, respectively. Anti-psoriatic activity of N. sativa seed extract loaded transfersomes showed a\u0000more significant reduction in thickness of the epidermis and less elongation of rete ridges with capillary loop dilation as compared to conventional gel formulation.\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000We concluded that the Nigella sativa seed ethanolic extract loaded transfersomes gel\u0000formulation showed significant ant-psoriasis activity in an albino rat model.\u0000","PeriodicalId":10924,"journal":{"name":"Current Nanomaterials","volume":"80 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139001231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}