Abstract
Some conventional drugs are swiftly accessible and poorly soluble in the body. Although it is less soluble and accessible, silymarin, a well-known antioxidant drug, is used to treat several ailments. It is integrated into green-designed Fagonia cretica extract (FCE) based on PEGylated-Sily@ZnFe(2)O(4) in this work to enhance these characteristics. UV-visible spectrometry, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and zeta potential analysis were all used to thoroughly analyze the nanocomposites. As a result, ZnFe(2)O(4) nanocomposites (NCs) produced nanostructures with an average crystal size of 7.66 nm, whereas PEGylated-Sily@ZnFe(2)O(4) nanodrug produced with an average crystal size of 25.38 nm. The ZnFe(2)O(4) NCs produced nanostructures with an average grain size of 332 nm and 504 nm, respectively as deduce by SEM analysis. Silymarin was estimated to have a loading efficiency of 27.39% into ZnFe(2)O(4) NCs. To examine the produced nano-drug's in vivo antioxidative capacity in the liver in comparison to pure silymarin, albino rats intoxicated with CCl(4) were administered different dosages of 500 and 1500 μg/kg body weight. In hepatic tissue, CCl(4) increased ROS and TBARS and lowered SOD, POD, and CAT levels, causing DNA damage that was mitigated subsequently by PEGylated-Sily@ZnFe(2)O(4). In a rat model of CCl(4)-induced hepatotoxicity, the in vivo assessment experiments showed that the synthesized PEGylated-Sily@ZnFe(2)O(4) efficiently displayed a hepatoprotective effect by mitigating cellular abnormalities caused by CCl(4) toxication. Additionally, the PEGylated-Sily@ZnFe(2)O(4) was shown to reduce the degree of DNA damage in the COMET experiment. In contrast to the traditional drug silymarin, the PEGylated-Sily@ZnFe(2)O(4). Nanocomposites may be useful in the future in sustaining a variety of tissues by lowering oxidative stress.