Physiological barriers to drug discovery Flashcards
Coatings
-control diffusion rates
-modify release properties
disintegrants
control regions of release
Lubricants
slow dissolution
Internal excipients
-swellable and nonswellable matrices
-inert plastics
Coating goals
-protection
-mask taste
-release
-aesthetics
-prevent inadvertent contact with drug
Aqueous film coatings contain
-film-forming polymer
-plasticizer (flexibility/elasticity)
-colorant and opafier
-vehicle
Non-aqueous film coatings contain
-film-forming polymer
-alloying substance (for solubility)
-plasticizer
-surfactants (film coat spreading)
-colorant and opafier (aesthetic)
-flavors
-glossant (luster)
-volatile solvent (spreading/evap)
Enteric coatings
-added to prevent early release of API in a region where it may undergo chemical breakdown
Reasons for enteric coating
-protect API from gastric fluids
-prevent gastric distress from API
-target delivery to an intestinal site
-delayed release
-deliver in higher local concentration
sustained release
-slow release
-delay onset of action but effect is sustained
Controlled release
-sustained but with reproducibility/predictability in drug release kinetics
-allows us to maintain a narrow drug plasma concentration-steady state
Controlled release fromulations
-coated beads, granules, microspheres
-multitablet system
-microencapsulated
-drug embedding in slowly eroding matrix
coated beads, granules, microspheres
-release by programmed erosion
-contacts
multitablet system
small tablets in a gelatin capsule
microencapsulated
-into walled material that allows spreading of particles across absorbing surface
Drug embedding in a slowly eroding or hydrophilic matrix
-drug homogenously dispersed in the eroding matrix
-release controlled by erosion rate
Steady state
rate going into body must equal the disposition
Drugs best suited for oral controlled release form
-exhibit neither slow nor fast rates of absorption/excretion
-uniformly absorbed from gas tract
-relatively small doses
-good therapeutic window
-chronic therapies better suited than acute
Factors of absorption: Permeability
functional and molecular characteristics of transporters and metabolism
epithelia
-line most external surfaces but does include endothelial cells
-sit on layer of extracellular matrix proteins (basal lamina)
simple squamous epithelia
-thin, flat layer
-pretty permeable
-lines most blood vessels, placenta