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Aggregation of Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose Acetate Succinate under Its Dissolving pH and the Impact on Drug
Shan Wang1, Chengyu Liu1, Yuejie Chen1
1School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, and Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry & Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education) , Tsinghua University , Beijing , China.
Abstract:
Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose acetate succinate (HPMC-AS) is one of the commonly selected polymers used in amorphous solid dispersions (ASD) with excellent capabilities to maintain aqueous supersaturation of poorly water-soluble drugs and inhibit their crystallization, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. In this study, posaconazole was chosen as the model drug to study the supersaturation maintaining and crystallization inhibition capabilities of different types of HPMC-AS under pH 5.5-7.5. We analyzed the HPMC-AS aggregation status in solution using combination of static and dynamic light scattering and observed higher polymer aggregation number when higher grade HPMC-AS or lower pH was used, which correlates well with prolonged drug supersaturation or crystallization inhibition. The amount of HPMC-AS coprecipitated with PSZ, a direct indicator of drug/HPMC-AS affinity, also showed positive correlation with the drug supersaturation and crystallization inhibition in the dissolution process. Therefore, we conclude that the aggregation behavior of HPMC-AS and the drug/HPMC-AS affinity are the key mechanisms that lead to posaconazole supersaturation and crystallization inhibition when HPMC-AS was applied.
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