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. 2020 Jan 17;12(1):75. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12010075

Table 2.

Observed responses in Box–Behnken design for rifapentine (RPT)-loaded nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs).

Sample Independent Variables Dependent Variables
X1 (mg) X2 (mg) X3 (mg) Y1 (nm) Y2 (%) Y 3
1 250 50 80 235 90.3 3.01
2 350 50 80 311 86.8 2.17
3 250 150 80 275 85.8 2.15
4 350 150 80 334 78.7 1.57
5 250 100 60 317 75.5 2.16
6 350 100 60 330 86.6 1.92
7 250 100 100 207 75.0 2.14
8 350 100 100 294 67.2 1.49
9 300 50 60 271 87.4 2.50
10 300 150 60 322 69.2 1.54
11 300 50 100 251 75.2 2.15
12 300 150 100 272 84.8 1.89
13 300 100 80 277 84.9 2.12
14 300 100 80 254 89.1 2.23
15 300 100 80 282 83.2 2.08

The independent variables were the amounts of solid lipid (X1), liquid lipid (X2), and surfactant (X3), while mean hydrodynamic particle size (Y1), encapsulation efficiency (Y2), and loading capacity (Y3) were the dependent variables in study.