A STUDY ON BIOPOLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES AS AN EFFECTIVE CARRIER FOR ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM

Drug delivery is the most essential feature in drug administration facility and the design of Nanosystems makes the action more consistent an appropriate. Polymer nano particles bind efficiently to the drug and disperse the drug proficiently into the system. The efficacy of many drugs is often limited by their potential to reach the site of therapeutic action. In most cases (conventional dosage forms), only a small amount of administered dose reaches the target site, while the majority of the drug distributes throughout the rest of the body in accordance with its physicochemical and biochemical properties. Therefore, developing a drug delivery system that optimizes the pharmaceutical action of a drug while reducing its toxic side effects in vivo is a challenging task. This study focuses on the preparation and characterization of biopolymeric alginate and chitosan nanoparticles for encapsulating the antidepressant drug Venlafaxine XR and analyzing it as an effective drug carrier and delivery system.  The study reports a method to predict the encapsulation efficiency of chitosan as an effective biopolymer. The profiles of FTIR’s spectra reveal the entrapment of chitosan, alginate and Venlafaxine XR. A comparative analysis was done by isolating chitosan from mushrooms and with that of commercially obtained chitosan. The distinct peak values enumerate the similarity in both the chitosans assayed. The binding affinity for the compounds chitosan and Alginate proves to be good and binding energy was found to be 0.21K Cal/mol. The Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship of the two compounds chitosan and alginate satisfied all the necessary parameters of LIPINSKI’S rule of five. It was observed that strong electrostatic interaction exists in the nanoparticles. Quantification of the drugs in a nano scale improves the dispersal and absorption rate of the drug. Entrapment of the drug venlafaxine XR is also significant because depression is nowadays becoming a mojor problem among the population.