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Hussain,Amjad; Mumtaz,Ahmad Mehmood; Arshad,Muhammad Sohail; Abbas,Nasir; Latif,Abida; Shamim,Rahat; Bukhari,Nadeem Irfan; Hussain,Khalid. |
ABSTRACT The present study describes the development of theophylline microcapsules by a non-solvent addition method and the effect of plasticizer addition on microencapsulation. The release was studied in distilled water and the data were analysed by various mathematical models for determining the mechanism of release. Prepared microcapsules were found to be spherical, free flowing and having more than 80% entrapped drug. The polymer - cellulose acetate phthalate and plasticizer - polyethylene glycol was considered to be affecting the properties of microcapsules including drug release (time for 50% drug release, T50). The formulation with the highest proportion of polymer and without plasticizer (F3) showed the slowest release with T50 = 4.3 h, while the... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Theophylline/microcapsules; Microencapsulation; Cellulose acetate phthalate; Polyethylene glycol; Microcapsules/mechanism of release; Drugs/release.. |
Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502016000100004 |
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