Dr.Ganesh Raosaheb Godge
@vikhepharmacynagar.com
Associate Professor at Department of Pharmaceutics at Dr.Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundations College of Pharmacy,Ahmednagar
Dr.Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundations College of Pharmacy,Ahmednagar
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Pharmacy, Multidisciplinary, Pharmaceutical Science, Research and Theory
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Ganesh R Godge, Mahesh A Garje, Aniket B Dode, and Kailas N Tarkase
BSP Books Private Limited
Now a days, many drug candidates are water insoluble hence they show a limited drug release and poor bioavailability. It is difficult to formulate these drugs by conventional dosage form. Nanosuspension technology is a promising approach to solve the problems of poorly soluble and less bioavailable drugs. Nanosuspension is a very finely colloidal, biphasic, and uniformly dispersed solid drug particles in a suitable aqueous vehicle, having a particle size below 1 μm stabilized by suitable surface active agents and polymers. Nanosuspensions are prepared by various suitable techniques for drug delivery applications. Due to reduced particle size at the nano scale, surface area, saturation solubility, dissolution velocity and bioavailability of BCS class II and class IV drugs are increased sufficiently. Nanosuspension is suitable to administration via various routes such as oral, intravenous, topical, pulmonary and ocular delivery systems. Nanosuspension can be also used for targeting purpose in various diseases such as cancer, HIV and production of sustained and extended release products by choosing suitable polymers. Production and manufacturing are not complicated, easy to scale up. Top down and bottom technologies are used for the preparation of nanosuspensions. It includes methods such as high-pressure homogenization, by milling media method, precipitation method, probe sonication, dry-co-grinding, supercritical fluid method, and lipid emulsion method. Formulation consists of stabilizers, surfactant, and solvents. Nanosuspension can be stored in the form of dry powder using spray drying, freeze drying techniques. This review describes the advantages, various methods of preparation, formulation consideration and characterization of nanosuspension.
GR Godge and SN Hiremath
Bangladesh Journals Online (JOL)
Colon is being extensively investigated as a drug delivery site. This study contains comparison of the usual enteric coating polymers viz. xanthan gum, guar gum, chitosan and ethyl cellulose, as carriers for colon specific drug delivery. Lactose based metoprolol succinate tablets were prepared. These were coated with one of the coating polymers to a varying coat thickness. Tablets were prepared using polysaccharides or synthetic polymer as binders. These included xanthan gum, guar gum, chitosan and ethyl cellulose. Metoprolol Succinate was used as a model drug. The prepared tablets were enteric coated with kollicoat MAE 100 DP to give protection in the stomach. The coated tablets were tested in-vitro for their suitability as colon specific drug delivery systems. The drug release studies were carried out in simulated stomach environment (pH 1.2) for 2 h followed by small intestinal environment at pH 6.8. The dissolution data obtained from tablets demonstrates that the dissolution rate of the tablet is dependent upon the type and concentration of polysaccharide/polymer used as binder. The results demonstrate that enteric coated tablets containing 3% chitosan as a binder, showed only 12.5% drug release in the first 5 h, which is the usual upper gastrointestinal transit time, whereas, tablets prepared using guar gum as binder, were unable to protect drug release under similar conditions. Preparations with xanthan gum as a binder formed time-dependent release formulations. When used in a concentration of 5.92% in the tablets, 28% drug release was observed in the usual upper gastrointestinal tract conditions. It was also found that enteric coated preparation formulated with 8.88% of kollicoat MAE 100 DP as binder could be used to carry water insoluble drug molecules. The above study shows that chitosan could be successfully used as a binder, for colon targeting of water insoluble drugs in preference to guar gum when used in the same concentration. Additionally, formulations developed with chitosan and kollicoat MAE 100 DP would be highly site specific since drug release would be at a retarded rate till microbial degradation or polymer solubilization takes place in the colon. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/dujps.v13i1.21874 Dhaka Univ. J. Pharm. Sci. 13(1): 105-113, 2014 (June)
Shivanand Hiremath and Ganesh Godge
Bangladesh Journals Online (JOL)
Nelfinavir is a poorly water-soluble antiretroviral drug with relatively low bioavailability. In the present study, the practically insoluble drug, nelfinavir (NFV) and its inclusion complexes with hydroxypropyl-?-cyclodextrin (HP-?-CD) were investigated to improve the aqueous solubility and the dissolution rate of the drug, thus enhancing its bioavailability. The phase solubility diagram with HP-?-CD was classified as AL-type at all temperatures investigated, indicating the formation of higher order complexes. The apparent complexation constants (K1:1) calculated from phase solubility diagram were 145.49, 188.45 and 255.54 M-1 at 25, 37 and 45 ± 0.5°C, respectively. Aqueous solubility and dissolution studies indicated that the dissolution rates were remarkably increased; this could be mainly attributed to the improved solubility and dissolution associated with inclusion complex between drug and HP- ? -CD. Absence of endothermic and characteristic diffraction peaks corresponding to NFV was observed for the inclusion complex in DSC and PXRD. FT-IR study indicated that the presence of intermolecular hydrogen bonds between NFV and HP-?-CD in inclusion complex, resulting in the formation of amorphous form. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/dujps.v11i2.14558 Dhaka Univ. J. Pharm. Sci. 11(2): 107-116, 2012 (December)