Generating Milk Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery

Abstract

Nanoparticles can be useful in pharmacology to deliver medicines to cells and other biomaterials efficiently. Particularly, we want to learn to use milk nanoparticles to transfer medicines to cells or other biomaterials. Nanoparticles from milk were first precipitated with the ExoQuick reagent from ThermoFisher. Using dynamic light scattering we measured the average size of the nanoparticles to be 376 nm in diameter. These nanoparticles are being used in further studies to examine transfer of molecules to cells. Our current emphasis is to use milk-derived nanoparticles to transfer fluorescent Curcumin to hydroxyapatite disks as a model of drug delivery.