Floating microspheres have emerged as a potential candidate for gastroretentive drug delivery system. For developing a desired intragastric floatation system employing these microspheres, it is necessary to select an appropriate balance between buoyancy and drug releasing rate. These properties mainly depend on the polymers used in the formulation of the microspheres. Hence it is necessory to s...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Recent studies have shown that low molecular weight heparins are effective in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease. Therefore, there is considerable interest in the development of an oral colonic delivery pharmaceutical system allowing targeted release of heparin in the inflamed tissue. The objective of this study was to prepare microparticles for the oral administrat...

Objective: Ocular inserts offer many advantages over conventional dosage forms, like increased ocular residence, the possibility of releasing a drug at slow and constant rate, accurate dosing, exclusion preservatives, shelf life. Besifloxacin is very important for treatment infectious conjunctivitis. The present study was aimed to formulate evaluate Non-Erodible Insert using Pullulan polyvinyl ...

BACKGROUND Microencapsulation is a useful method to prolong a drug release from dosage forms and to reduce its adverse effect (1) among various available methods. The microencapsulation of hydrophilic active ingredients requires the use of a polar dispersing phase such as a mineral oil. Acetone/paraffin systems are conventionally used. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate two dif...

rug delivery to the colon is beneficial not only for the oral delivery of proteins and peptide drugs (degraded by digestive enzymes of stomach and small intestine) but also for the delivery of low molecular weight compounds used to treat diseases associated with the colon or large intestine such as ulcerative colitis, diarrhea, and colon cancer. In addition, the colon has a long retention time ...

The objective of the present work was to develop a suitable transdermal drug delivery system for nitrendipine. Polymeric films of nitrendipine were prepared by the film casting technique (glass ring) on mercury substrate. They were evaluated for physicochemical parameters, in vitro release and ex vivo permeation (heat separated human epidermis). Release of the drug from the films followed anoma...

The objective of present investigation is to design a sustained release floating microballoons of Metformin HCl using two polymers of different permeability characteristics Cellulose Acetate Butyrate (MW of 16,000) and Eudragit RS 100 (MW of 150,000) using the oil-in-oil emulsion solvent evaporation method. The prepared microballoons were studied for drug release behavior in simulated gastric f...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate microencapsulated controlled release preparation of theophylline using Eudragit RS 100 as the retardant material with high entrapment efficiency. METHODS Microspheres were prepared by the emulsion-solvent evaporation method. A mixed solvent system consisting of methanol and acetone and light liquid paraffin as oily phase were chos...

The present study is the development of colon targeted matrix tablets of the drug flurbiprofen, a NSAIDS of the class of Ibuprofen designed to prolonged the release for sustained effect. Different formulation (F1 TO F9) batches were made with the help of different polymers and their different proportions (Guar Gum, Eudragit RL, Eudragit RS ) with the help of Wet granulation techniques. The prep...