Effect of Shear Stresses on Adenovirus Activity and Aggregation during Atomization To Produce Thermally Stable Vaccines by Spray Drying
| Autor: | Myla Manser, Blair A. Morgan, Mangalakumari Jeyanathan, Emily D. Cranston, Zhou Xing, Michael Thompson |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Chemical Engineering |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Materials science
0206 medical engineering Nozzle Biomedical Engineering Excipient 02 engineering and technology Adenoviridae Spray nozzle Biomaterials Viscosity Adenovirus Vaccines medicine Shear stress Humans Composite material Vaccines Spray Drying 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 020601 biomedical engineering 3. Good health Process conditions Shear (sheet metal) Spray drying Powders 0210 nano-technology medicine.drug |
| Popis: | Considering the substantive potential benefits of thermally stable dry powder vaccines to public health, causes for inactivation of their sensitive viral vectors during preparation require intensive study. The focus of this work was atomization of suspensions containing encapsulating excipients and a human type 5 adenovirus, involving a detailed investigation of shear stresses in the nozzle of a spray dryer. Samples were sprayed at 25 °C into falcon tubes and immediately evaluated for viral activity by in vitro testing, minimizing the confounding of thermal effects on the deactivation of the virus, although interfacial stresses could not be decoupled from shear stresses. Despite the expectations of only virus deactivation with ever-increasing shear stresses in the spray nozzle, some conditions were found to show better activity than the positive control, leading to investigations of viral aggregation. It was found that the adenovirus experienced minor aggregation when mixed with the excipient solutions, which was reversed by subjecting samples to moderate shear conditions in the spray nozzle. At very high shear rates, the activity diminished again because of damage to the viral capsid fibers, which also led to the production of new aggregates after atomization. Despite these findings, activity losses caused by shear were small compared to the overall spray drying process loss. However, formulation composition, solution viscosity, and process conditions should be considered carefully for optimization because of their impact on aggregation. This is the first known report comparing shear, aggregation, and biological activity loss during the atomization step of spray drying viral vaccines. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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