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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine. 2011 Aug 10;8(4):440–451. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2011.07.011

Table 2.

Percent encapsulation efficiency in terms of total curcumin used in liposome preparation

Curcumin in Conventional curcumin liposomes (CD-free) 2.5% HPγCD-curcumin liposomes
Liposome Only 0.8 mg/ml 1.3 mg/ml
Supernatant Only 0 mg/ml 0.7 mg/ml
Curcumin encapsulated 0.8 mg/ml 1.3 mg/ml
Total curcumin encapsulated in 5 ml 4 mg 6.5 mg
Total curcumin used 13 mg 13 mg
% Encapsulation of starting curcumin 30.7 50