Thermal Characteristics of Nanostructured Lipid Carriers (NLCs) by Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) (CAT#: STEM-MB-0499-WXH)

Introduction

Lipid nanospheres are considered as drug delivery carriers. Having potential application in medicine, these nanoparticles have been used extensively during the recent years. Lipid nanospheres offer a variety of advantages, including enhancement of the therapeutic effect, biodegradability, good tolerability, bioavailability in case of ocular administration, and capability of brain targeting. Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) and NLCs can be categorized as two main types of lipid nanospheres. SLNs introduce a variety of advantages, such as controlled drug delivery, development of emulsion, liposomes, and fine particles, protection of active ingredients against degradation by chemicals, and incorporating a high degree of flexibility in the modulation of the drug release profiles.

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Principle

Calorimetry is a primary technique for measuring the thermal properties of materials to establish a connection between temperature and specific physical properties of substances and is the only method for direct determination of the enthalpy associated with the process of interest. Calorimeters are used frequently in chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology, biotechnology, pharmacology, and recently, in nanoscience to measure thermodynamic properties of the biomolecules and nano-sized materials.
Amongst various types of calorimeters, differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) is a popular one. DSC is a thermal analysis apparatus measuring how physical properties of a sample change, along with temperature against time.1In other words, the device is a thermal analysis instrument that determines the temperature and heat flow associated with material transitions as a function of time and temperature. During a change in temperature, DSC measures a heat quantity, which is radiated or absorbed excessively by the sample on the basis of a temperature difference between the sample and the reference material.

Applications

Thermal Characteristics of Nanostructured Lipid Carriers (NLCs).
Research on Drug delivery.

Procedure

1. Instrument Start-up
2. Sample Preparation
(1) Dialyze the sample against the buffer that will be used as the reference for the experiment.
(2) Determine the concentration of the protein sample using the most suitable protein concentration determination method.
(3) Degas the sample and reference buffer in vacuum to get rid of microbubbles that can cause volume inaccuracy.
(4) load the samples and their respective buffer in pairs into 96 well plates compatible with the instrument.
(5) Place the plate in the sample holding compartment in the proper orientation.
3. Experimental Parameter Setup
Set the starting temperature, final temperature and the scan rate of the experiment.
4. Data Analysis

Materials

Differential Scanning Calorimeters

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