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Table 5 Drug targeting efficiency and direct nose-to-brain transport following intranasal administration of different formulations

From: A bioanalytical UHPLC based method used for the quantification of Thymoquinone-loaded-PLGA-nanoparticles in the treatment of epilepsy

Formulations

Drug targeting efficiency

(%DTE)a

Direct nose-to-brain transport (%DTP)a

Comparative bioavailabilitya

(AUCi.n./AUCi.v.); (%)

Blood

Brain

THQ-S

7633.33 ± 91.78

47.01 ± 4.98

1.38 ± 0.12

6.55 ± 0.83

THQ-PLGA-NPs

8075.00 ± 113.05

89.89 ± 9.38

5.07 ± 0.67

98.24 ± 6.89

  1. aParameters are derived using mean ± SEM values of 6 different estimations