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New controlled-release ibuprofen tablets
G F Palmieri1, D Lovato, S Martelli
1Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Camerino, Italy.
Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy
|April 29, 1999
Abstract:
Tablets containing two different doses of ibuprofen are realized. The first possesses very fast release kinetics, while the second has slow and linear release kinetics. This allows drug to produce a therapeutic effect quickly and to maintain it for a long time with only one administration unit. Such tablets are obtained by compression of a mixture of two very different kinds of granulates: an ibuprofen-starch granulate and an ibuprofen-Eudragit RS microsphere granulate. Specific proportions of mixtures of them give the described result after compression at particular tablet hardnesses.