Vitamin solubilized

Uses Emulsifier for vitamins solubilizer surfactant Regulatory Canada DSL listed... 

Chem. Descrip. Ethoxylated castor oil Ionic Nature Nonionic CAS 61791-12-6 Uses Vitamin solubilizer Properties Yel. liq. HLB 11.9 100% act. 

Loss of vitamin A occurs if a conventional vitamin A concentrate is added to whole milk prior to fat separation. This leads to underfortification of vitamin A in low-fat and skim milks. Duxbury [34] reported the use of a vitamin-solubilized o/w microemiflsion to disperse vitamin A in milk and maintain its fortification level. Chiu and Jiang [35] reported the formation of a w/o microemulsion in which oil-soluble vitamin E was solubilized in the aqueous phase. Flowever, the smfactants used were not food grade. 

A major pharmaceutical use of poly(oxyethylene) sorbitan fatty acid esters is in the solubilization of the oil-soluble vitamins A and D. In this way, multivitamin preparations can be made which combine both water- and oil-soluble vitamins in a palatable form. 

Ethoxylated castor ods or ethoxylated castorwaxes are used as solubilizers of hydrophobic substances in cosmetics. Examples are Cremophor EL (ethyoxylated castor od) and Cremophor RH (40/60 ethoxylated hydrogenated castor od). Other ethoxylated triglycerides are not as effective as castor od. Ethoxylated castor od is also a good solubilizer for vitamin A palmitate (121). 

Depicted in Fig. 2, microemulsion-based liquid liquid extraction (LLE) of biomolecules consists of the contacting of a biomolecule-containing aqueous solution with a surfactant-containing lipophilic phase. Upon contact, some of the water and biomolecules will transfer to the organic phase, depending on the phase equilibrium position, resulting in a biphasic Winsor II system (w/o-ME phase in equilibrium with an excess aqueous phase). Besides serving as a means to solubilize biomolecules in w/o-MEs, LLE has been frequently used to isolate and separate amino acids, peptides and proteins [4, and references therein]. In addition, LLE has recently been employed to isolate vitamins, antibiotics, and nucleotides [6,19,40,77-79]. Industrially relevant applications of LLE are listed in Table 2 [14,15,20,80-90]. 

A surfactant is a surface-active agent that is used to disperse a water-insoluble drug as a colloidal dispersion. Surfactants are used for wetting and to prevent crystal growth in a suspension. Surfactants are used quite extensively in parenteral suspensions for wetting powders and to provide acceptable syringability. They are also used in emulsions and for solubilizing steroids and fat-soluble vitamins. 

Although anation and aquation rates of vitamin B12 are not affected appreciably by aqueous micelles, the solubilized water in reversed micelles, in contrast, influences the rate and equilibrium constants for the formation and decomposition of glycine, imidazole, and sodium azide adducts of vitamin Bl2 (Fendler et al., 1974). A vitamin B12 molecule is conceivably shielded from the apolar solvent (benzene) by some 300 surfactant molecules. 

C. Bioavailability of dietary, emulsified and solubilized fat soluble vitamins... 

Lipid peroxidation activity. Solubilized green tea, administered orally to rats for 5 weeks, reduced lipid peroxidation products. The treatment produced increased activity of glutathione (GSFf) peroxidase and GSH reductase, increased content of reduced GSH, a marked decrease in lipid hydroperoxides and malondialdehyde in the liver, an increase in the concentration of vitamin A by about 40%. A minor change in the measured parameters was observed in the blood... 

Excipients offer several possibilities and mechanisms. For microemulsions, Cremophor RH 40, Cremophor EL, and Solutol HS 15 act as surface active solubilizers in water and form the structures of micelles. The micelle that envelops the active substance is so small that it is invisible, or perhaps visible in the form of opalescence. Typical fields of application are oil-soluble vitamins, antimycotics of the miconazole type, mouth disinfectants (e.g., hexiditin), and etherian oils or fragrances. Solutol HS 15 is recommended for parenteral use of this solubilizing system and has been specially developed for this purpose. 

This product is an aqueous solution of water-soluble vitamins with oily vitamin A palmitate and cholecalceferol solubilized in water using the surfactant system of Tween 80 and Cetomacrogol. This syrup is a solubilized oil surfactant system and is liable to heat and rate of mixing. The temperature of solution must not exceed 30°C at the time of final mixing. The final mixing must be in continuous manner without any interruption. For the preparation of oily phase, the container must be dry. 

Chien, Y.W. Solubilization of metronidazole by water-miscible multi-cosolvents and water-soluble vitamins,J. Parent. Sci. Technol., 38, 32-36, 1984. 

The major benefit of the solubilization principle is the increased water solubility of water-insoluble drugs such as phenolic compounds, iodine, steroids, and vitamins. The solubilization of water-insoluble materials in micelles may have some effects on drug activity and absorption. In addition, drugs in the micelles may prefer to stay... 

Menaquinones are synthesized by intestinal bacteria, but it is unclear how much they contribute to vitamin K nutrition, because they are extremely hydrophobic, and win only be absorbed from regions of the gastrointestinal tract where bUe salts are present - mainly the terminal Ueum. However, prolonged use of antibiotics can lead to vitamin K deficiency and the development of vitamin K-responsive hypoprothrombinemia (Section 5.4), as can dietary deprivation of phylloquinone. In vitro, menaquinones 2 to 6 have the same activity as phylloquinone as coenzyme for the solubilized liver microsomal vitamin K-dependent carboxylase (Section 5.3.1), whereas menaquinones with a side chain longer than seven have lower activity (Suttie, 1995). In extrahepatic tissues, the principal active vitamer is menaquinone-4 (Thijssen and Drittij-Reijnders, 1996 Thijssen et al., 1996). 

Hildebrand EF, Preusch PC, Patterson JL, and Suttie JW (1984) Solubilization and characterization of vitamin K epoxide reductase from normal and warfarin-resistant rat liver microsomes. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 228,480-92. 

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