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Mucoadhesive capabilities need to be routinely quantified during the development of these systems. This is however logistically challenging due to difficulties in obtaining and preparing viable mucosa tissues for experiments. Utilizing artificial membranes as a suitable alternative for quicker and easier analyses of mucoadhesion of these systems is currently being explored. In this study, the mucoadhesive interactions between progesterone-loaded fibers (with varying carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) content) and either artificial (cellulose acetate) or mucosa membranes are investigated by texture analysis and results across models are compared. Mucoadhesion to artificial membrane was about 10 times that of mucosa, though statistically significant (p = 0.027) association between the 2 data sets was observed. 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