Ron Scarboro, Azurity Pharmaceuticals, explains how cross-functional development, disciplined reformulation, and post-approval metrics can help proven medicines work in everyday use.
|Articles|December 1, 2011
Pharmaceutical Technology Europe
- Pharmaceutical Technology Europe-12-01-2011
- Volume 23
- Issue 12
The Development of a Floating Drug-Delivery System for Metronidazole
Author(s)Shamsuddin Sultan Khan, Mesbah Uddin Talukder
The authors developed a metronidazole-based floating drug-delivery system to investigate the effect of rate-controlling polymers on release pattern and duration of buoyancy in matrix tablets.
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By Shamsuddin Sultan Khan and Mesbah Uddin Talukder
Sustained-release dosage forms enable prolonged action of a drug in the body. Much research has focused on overcoming the short residence times and unpredictable gastric emptying times of drugs in sustained-release oral drug-delivery systems (1). A floating drug-delivery system floats in the gastric juice without affecting the gastric emptying rate. It forms a cohesive gel barrier that serves as a reservoir and releases the drug over the desired period of time. This technique helps increase a drug's gastric residence time and reduces the variability in bioavailability (2, 3).
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