eprintid: 1569389 rev_number: 45 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/56/93/89 datestamp: 2017-08-09 14:29:03 lastmod: 2020-02-13 01:05:29 status_changed: 2017-09-14 10:45:59 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Murdan, S creators_name: Bari, A creators_name: Ahmed, S creators_name: Hossin, B creators_name: Kerai, L title: Nail lacquer films' surface energies and in vitro water-resistance and adhesion do not predict their in vivo residence ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B02 divisions: C08 divisions: D10 divisions: G08 keywords: nail, laquer, in-vitro in-vivo correlations note: Open Access under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). abstract: The in vivo residence of nail lacquers (which are ideal topical drug carriers for the treatment of nail diseases) determines their frequency of application, and is thereby expected to influence patient adherence and success of treatment. Thus in vitro measurements to indicate lacquers’ in vivo residence are routinely conducted during formulation development. However the literature on in vitro-in vivo correlations is severely limited. Thus, the aim of the work discussed in this paper was to investigate correlations between in vivo residence and in vitro film resistance to water, in vitro film adhesion and surface energy of lacquer films. In vivo measurements were conducted on fingernails in six volunteers. Seven commercially available nail lacquers were tested in commonly-used measurements. Correlations between in vivo residence and in vitro water resistance and adhesion were found to be extremely poor. The surface energies of the lacquer films (which were between 33 and 39 mJ/m2) were also not predictive of in vivo residence. High density polyethylene (HDPE) sheet – whose surface energy was determined to be similar to that of the human nailplate – was found to be a suitable model for the nailplate (when investigating surface energy) and was used in a number of experiments. date: 2017 date_type: published official_url: http://doi.org/10.5920/bjpharm.2017.03 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1410581 doi: 10.5920/bjpharm.2017.03 lyricists_name: Murdan, Sudaxshina lyricists_id: SMURD86 actors_name: Murdan, Sudaxshina actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: SMURD86 actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner actors_role: impersonator full_text_status: public publication: British Journal of Pharmacy volume: 2 number: 1 article_number: 3 issn: 2058-8356 citation: Murdan, S; Bari, A; Ahmed, S; Hossin, B; Kerai, L; (2017) Nail lacquer films' surface energies and in vitro water-resistance and adhesion do not predict their in vivo residence. British Journal of Pharmacy , 2 (1) , Article 3. 10.5920/bjpharm.2017.03 <https://doi.org/10.5920/bjpharm.2017.03>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1569389/1/Murdan_Nail_lacquer_films_VoR.pdf