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Strategies to Guide the Manufacturing of Liposomes Using Microfluidics pharmaceutics Article The Impact of Solvent Selection: Strategies to Guide the Manufacturing of Liposomes Using Microfluidics 1, 1, 1,2 1 Cameron Webb y, Swapnil Khadke y, Signe Tandrup Schmidt , Carla B. Roces , Neil Forbes 1, Gillian Berrie 1 and Yvonne Perrie 1,* 1 Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, 161 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0RE, UK; [email protected] (C.W.); [email protected] (S.K.); [email protected] (S.T.S.); [email protected] (C.B.R.); [email protected] (N.F.); [email protected] (G.B.) 2 Department of Infectious Disease Immunology, Center for Vaccine Research, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +0141-548-2244 These authors contributed equally to this work. y Received: 26 October 2019; Accepted: 30 November 2019; Published: 4 December 2019 Abstract: The aim of this work was to assess the impact of solvent selection on the microfluidic production of liposomes. To achieve this, liposomes were manufactured using small-scale and bench-scale microfluidics systems using three aqueous miscible solvents (methanol, ethanol or isopropanol, alone or in combination). Liposomes composed of different lipid compositions were manufactured using these different solvents and characterised to investigate the influence of solvents on liposome attributes. Our studies demonstrate that solvent selection is a key consideration during the microfluidics manufacturing process, not only when considering lipid solubility but also with regard to the resultant liposome critical quality attributes. In general, reducing the polarity of the solvent (from methanol to isopropanol) increased the liposome particle size without impacting liposome short-term stability or release characteristics. Furthermore, solvent combinations such as methanol/isopropanol mixtures can be used to modify solvent polarity and the resultant liposome particle size. However, the impact of solvent choice on the liposome product is also influenced by the liposome formulation; liposomes containing charged lipids tended to show more sensitivity to solvent selection and formulations containing increased concentrations of cholesterol or pegylated-lipids were less influenced by the choice of solvent. Indeed, incorporation of 14 wt% or more of pegylated-lipid was shown to negate the impact of solvent selection. Keywords: liposomes; microfluidics; solvents; formulation; particle size; pegylation; alcohol 1. Introduction Liposomes are a versatile group of nanoparticles, which are approved for use in the clinic to improve the delivery of cancer agents, antifungal agents and vaccine adjuvants [1,2]. Currently, most approved liposome products contain already-approved drugs (e.g., amphotericin B, doxorubicin, bupivacaine, verteporfin) [3]. Recently, there has been a rise in follow-on ‘nanosimilars’ or generic liposome products being approved for use. Indeed, this has resulted in new recommendations for the naming of liposomal medicines such that the qualifier ‘liposomal’ or ‘pegylated liposomal’ should be added to the name. This recommendation, made jointly by the EMA’s human medicines committee and the Coordination Group for the mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures, aims to provide clearer distinctions between liposomal and non-liposomal formulations and hence avoid medication errors [4]. 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The relationship between aqueous solubility andand the number of carbon atoms inin alcoholsalcohols determined by by surface surface tension tension (adapted (adapted from from [19]) [19 and]) and physical physical properties properties of methanol, of methanol, ethanol, ethanol, and andisopropanol. isopropanol. Typically, IPAIPA hashas beenbeen usedused asas thethe lipidlipid solventsolvent inin microfluidicmicrofluidic processesprocesses [[8,22–24],8,22–24], withwith fewer studies exploring other solvents such as ethanol as a less toxic alternative for medicinal applications, whichwhich wouldwould alsoalso comply with routine industrial processesprocesses [[25].25]. However, thethe choice of solvent used during microfluidics may have an impact; Zook and Vreeland hypothesised that liposomes formed Pharmaceutics 2019, 11, 653 3 of 15 duePharmaceutics to the alcohol2019, 11 ,and 653 aqueous phase mixing, increasing the polarity of the solvent, which3 of 16caused the lipids to become progressively less soluble and self-assemble into planar
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