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. 2014 Feb 1;27(1):12–20. doi: 10.1089/jamp.2013.1073

Table 1.

Summary Of The Physicochemical And In Vitro Characteristics Of LMWH-Loaded Large Porous PEG-PLGA Microparticles

Parameters LMWH-loaded PEG-PLGA particles
Physical characteristics
 Volume-based mean diameter 9.443±0.157 μm
 Tapped density 0.1674±0.005 g/mL
 MMAD 2.675±0.4 μm
  GSD 2.52
  FPF 65.05±3.9%
 Zeta potential −7.546±0.217 mV
Drug entrapment efficiency 64.51±1.78%
Cumulative drug release 49.2±3.0% over 48 hr

MMAD, mass median aerodynamic diameter; GSD, geometric standard deviation; FPF, fine particle fraction.

These data have been excerpted from one of our previous publications.(18)