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1Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences, Memphis 38163.
Abstract:
Dissolution profiles were determined for nine methenamine, 14 nitrofurantoin, and six chlorothiazide dosage forms using a dissolution simulator. Various in vivo-in vitro correlations were examined. The best correlation for methenamine was between the maximum urinary excretion rate and the time for 15% dissolution. A good correlation for the 50-mg nitrofurantoin tablets was also found between cumulative percent of drug excreted in 12 hr and the percent dissolved in 1 hr. There were no significant correlations for the 100-mg nitrofurantoin dosage forms. Good correlations were also observed for the 250- and 500-mg chlorothiazide tablets between the percent of drug dissolved in 1 min or the time for 15% dissolution and the maximum excretion rate.
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