
Tuberculosis is one of the dangerous infectious diseases, killing over a million people worldwide each year. The search for new dosage forms for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis is an actual task. Biocompatible polymer nanoparticles, in particular bovine serum albumin (BSA), are promising drug carriers. Nanoparticle (NP) parameters such as diameter, polydispersity, bioactive substance loading, and NP yield are very important when it comes to drug transport through the bloodstream. The most well-known and widely used first-line anti-tuberculosis drug, isoniazid (INH), is being used as a drug. BSA-INH NPs were obtained by an ethanol desolvation of an aqueous protein solution in the drug presence. The peculiarity of the method is that natural components, namely urea and cysteine, are used for the stabilization of BSA-INH NPs after desolvation. The characteristics of the obtained BSA-INH NPs are significantly affected by the concentration of protein, isoniazid, urea, and cysteine in the solution. The aim of the present study is to investigate the concentration effect of the system reacting components on the parameters of the NPs that are obtained. We have chosen the concentrations of four reacting components, i.e., BSA, isoniazid, urea, and cysteine, as controlling factors and applied the Taguchi method to analyze which concentration of each component has an important effect on BSA-INH NPs characteristics.
isoniazid, anti-TB drugs, bovine serum albumin, Taguchi method, biopolymers, nanoparticles, proteins, Article
isoniazid, anti-TB drugs, bovine serum albumin, Taguchi method, biopolymers, nanoparticles, proteins, Article
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