The Strength and Compaction of Millispheres: The design of a controlled-release drug delivery system for ibuprofen in the form of a tablet comprising compacted polymer-coated millispheres
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy
- Vol. 20 (20), 3069-3104
- https://doi.org/10.3109/03639049409041969
Abstract
This paper reviews a case study of the design of a controlled-release drug delivery system for ibuprofen in the form of a tablet comprising compacted polymer-coated millispheres (multiparticulate pellets). The particular challenge was to prepare coated millispheres of ibuprofen (a high-dose drug) with the addition of minimal excipients so that the drug-release retarding polymeric membrane surrounding the millispheres remains intact during and after tablet compression, disintegration and release of the millispheres. The study included (a) the design of the uncoated core and its manufacture by wet massing, extrusion, spheronization and drying; (b) the coating of these millispheres with a range of possibly suitable polymers; (c) an assessment of the drug release profiles from these pellets; (d) the quantification by indentation rheology of the mechanical properties of the polymer films used to coat the spheres; (e) the measurement of the mechanical properties of individual uncoated and coated millispheres and f. the design, manufacture and evaluation of compressed tablets containing coated millispheres The matching of millisphere and polymer mechanical properties was found to be essential in order to ensure minimal damage to the millispheres and the release of virtually intact coated spheres without destruction of their retarded drug-release characteristics. Aqueous polymeric dispersions which formed a film with similar elastic and tensile properties to the uncoated millisphere formulation resulted in the most satisfactory film coating for application to spherical particles which must withstand compaction. Those polymeric films exhibiting significantly greater resilience than the uncoated cores were inappropriate for the film coating of millispheres for compaction into tabletsKeywords
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