Research Article

Temperature-Sensitive Gels for Intratumoral Delivery of β-Lapachone: Effect of Cyclodextrins and Ethanol

Table 4

Data from fitting βLAP release profiles to zero-order kinetics and total amount of drug released at the end of the assay (D20).

Pluronic %AdditiveCorrelation coefficientSlope (μg h·cm−2)D20(μg·cm−2)

F127 18%Without0.9991.2137.9
5% (w/v) RMβCD0.9992.1969.2

F127 23%Without0.9850.309.7
20% (v/v) EtOH0.9670.4614.9
5% (w/v) RMβCD0.9960.9429.2

F127 28%Without0.9930.319.9
5% (w/v) RMβCD0.9870.6822.1

P123 28%Without0.9990.6118.8
20% (v/v) EtOH0.9940.7022.1
5% (w/v) RMβCD0.9861.0432.8