Conventional and PEGylated Liposomes as Vehicles of Copaifera sabulicola Blanco, Ian M. R. De Melo Barbosa, Raquel Viseras Iborra, César Antonio Copaiba oil Liposomes Antitumor activity Copaifera spp. Astrocytes Traditional medicine uses resin oils extracted from plants of the genus Copaifera for several purposes. Resin oils are being studied to understand and profile their pharmacological properties. The aim of this work was to prepare and to characterize conventional and pegylated liposomes incorporating resin oils or the hexanic extract obtained from Copaifera sabulicola (copaiba) leaves. The cytotoxic effect of these products was also investigated. Conventional and stealth liposomes with copaiba extract showed similar average diameters (around 126 nm), encapsulation efficiencies greater than 75% and were stable for 90 days. A cytotoxicity test was performed on murine glioma cells and the developed liposomes presented antiproliferative action against these cancer cells at the average concentration of 30 g/mL. Phytochemicals encapsulated in PEGylated liposomes induced greater reduction in the viability of tumor cells. In addition, bioassay-s measured the cytotoxicity of copaiba resin oil (Copaifera sabulicola) in liposomes (conventional and PEGylated), which was also checked against pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. Its safety was verified in normal rat astrocytes. The results indicate that liposomes encapsulating copaiba oil showed cytotoxic activity against the studied tumor strains in a dose-dependent fashion, demonstrating their potential applications as a chemotherapeutic bioactive formulation. 2023-03-28T11:33:30Z 2023-03-28T11:33:30Z 2023-02-16 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Blanco, I.M.R... [et al.]. Conventional and PEGylated Liposomes as Vehicles of Copaifera sabulicola. Pharmaceutics 2023, 15, 671. [https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics15020671] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/80907 10.3390/pharmaceutics15020671 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI