Acta Pharmaceutica, Vol. 66 No. 2, 2016.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1515/acph-2016-0025
Piecewise function parameters as responses of the design of experiment in development of a pulsatile release chronopharmaceutical system
ANDREEA LOREDANA VONICA-GLIGOR
; Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Haţieganu”, 40012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; S.C. Polisno Pharmaceuticals S.R.L., 550201 Sibiu, Romania; Faculty of Medicine, “Lucian Blaga
IOAN TOMUŢĂ
orcid.org/0000-0002-5094-008X
; Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Haţieganu”, 40012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
SORIN E. LEUCUŢA
; Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Haţieganu”, 40012 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Abstract
The aim of this work was to develop a pulsatile release system with metoprolol for chronotherapeutical use by coating swellable mini-tablets with Eudragit RS. To study the influence of the formulation factors (amount of coating polymer, plasticizer percentage in film coating and swelling agent percentage in mini-tablets), a Box-Behnken design of experiment (DoE) was used. To evaluate the influence of the studied factors on the sigmoid shape of the dissolution profile, piecewise function parameters were used as the responses of DoE. The results show that higher concentrations of coating polymer and higher concentrations of plasticizer polymer led to a thicker and more elastic polymeric film, which led to a delay in drug release. Using the parameters of the piecewise function as DoE responses, an optimum formulation with a sigmoid shape dissolution profile and a 2.5-h lag time followed by rapid drug release were obtained.
Keywords
pulsatile release; chronopharmaceutical system; piecewise function; design of experiment; Eudragit RS; metoprolol
Hrčak ID:
153865
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2016.
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