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Jun-Bom Park1, Beom-Jin Lee2, Chin-Yang Kang1
1College of Pharmacy, Sahmyook University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
The objective of the present study was to compare the influence of Eudragit® RS PO and RL PO blends on the release of water-soluble and insoluble drugs from hot-melt extruded formulations. In addition, we aimed to evaluate drug content uniformity and distribution by Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) chemical imaging. Theophylline (TP) and carbamazepine (CBZ) were selected as the water-soluble and insoluble model drugs, respectively. Eudragit® RS PO and RL PO were selected as the polymeric matrices. FT-IR chemical imaging clearly demonstrated the content uniformity and distribution for both drugs in the extrudates, which was confirmed by HPLC. Increasing the ratio of Eudragit® RL PO led to an increase in the in vitro drug release, whereas an increase in the ratio of Eudragit® RS PO sustained the drug release for up to 12 h. The hot-melt extrusion of TP and CBZ with varying ratios of Eudragit® RS PO and RL PO can be employed to tailor the drug release profiles. In this study, we demonstrated, for the first time, the use of FT-IR chemical imaging as a process analytical technique to determine the drug content uniformity and distribution. Our data correlated well with the results of HPLC analysis in the study of tailored drug release from the prepared hot-melt extruded formulation.
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