Table 4. Saturation Solubility of pure drug and aprepitant nanocrystals .
Medium | Pure drug Concentration (µg/ml) (Mean ± SD) | Nanocrystals Concentration (µg/ml) (Mean ± SD) | Fold increase in saturation solubility |
Distilled water | 2.90 ± 0.53 | 43.1 ± 5.10 | 14.86 |
pH 1.2 buffer + 2.2%w/v SLS | 2736 ± 30.38 | 3314 ± 10.99 | 1.21 |
pH 4.6 buffer + 2.2%w/v SLS | 3364 ± 12.59 | 3854 ± 8.17 | 1.15 |
Phosphate buffer pH6.8 | 3.4 ± 2.38 | 38.6 ± 3.94 | 11.35 |
Phosphate buffer pH7.4 | 3.52 ± 1.22 | 40.2 ± 5.10 | 11.42 |
2.2%w/v SLS in water | 3910 ± 31.40 | 4610 ± 7.21 | 1.18 |