Research Article

Development of Polymer and Surfactant Based Naringenin Nanosuspension for Improvement of Stability, Antioxidant, and Antitumour Activity

Table 1

Optimization parameters of NAR nanosuspensions stabilized by different concentrations of SDS and HPMC.

SamplesParticle size (nm) (mean ± SD)PDI (mean ± SD)Zp (mV) (mean ± SD)

SDS conc. (% w/v)
F1 (0.1)1251 ± 14.90.52 ± 0.04−25.9 ± 1.7
F2 (0.5)674 ± 6.90.44 ± 0.02−34.7 ± 1.9
F3 (1)460 ± 7.30.33 ± 0.03−40.6 ± 2.2

HPMC conc. (% w/v)
F4 (0.1)1421 ± 13.60.58 ± 0.05−5.8 ± 0.4
F5 (0.5)760 ± 12.30.45 ± 0.03−7.1 ± 0.8
F6 (1)372 ± 3.500.32 ± 0.04−8.8 ± 0.5

Drug : stabilizer (2 : 1) ratio; 15 homogenization cycles and pressure 1500 bar were fixed.