Biomedical subjects

M Strømme

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PubMed2005

Influence of cellulose powder structure on moisture-induced degradation of acetylsalicylic acid.

The stability of crystalline acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) powder in binary mixtures with cellulose powders was investigated to reveal information about the influence of the cellulose structural properties on the moisture-induced ASA degradation. Different cellulose powder samples were manufactured and characterized by X-ray diffraction and N2 BET gas adsorption. The degradation patterns in ASA/cellulose mixtures were monitored as a function of salicylic acid increase versus time under various relative humidity conditions at 50 degrees C. The crystallinity index of cellulose samples varied between approximately 49 and 95%. The results indicated that cellulose powder with the lowest crystallinity index exhibited lower degradation rates than the samples with the higher crystallinity index. It should be noted that higher ASA degradation rates were observed in the samples with comparably lower moisture contents. This effect was most pronounced in the 1:3 (w/w), ASA/cellulose mixtures, whereas in 3:1 (w/w), ASA/cellulose mixtures the effect was less obvious. The findings emphasise the importance of cellulose structural organisation when governing the moisture's partition between cellulose and ASA during the hydrolytic degradation.

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PubMed2005

Viscoelastic characterization of compacted pharmaceutical excipient materials by analysis of frequency-dependent mechanical relaxation processes.

A newly developed method for determining the frequency-dependent complex Young's modulus was employed to analyze the mechanical response of compacted microcrystalline cellulose, sorbitol, ethyl cellulose and starch for frequencies up to 20 kHz. A Debye-like relaxation was observed in all the studied pharmaceutical excipient materials and a comparison with corresponding dielectric spectroscopy data was made. The location in frequency of the relaxation peak was shown to correlate to the measured tensile strength of the tablets, and the relaxation was interpreted as the vibrational response of the interparticle hydrogen and van der Waals bindings in the tablets. Further, the measured relaxation strength, holding information about the energy loss involved in the relaxation processes, showed that the weakest material in terms of tensile strength, starch, is the material among the four tested ones that is able to absorb the most energy within its structure when exposed to external perturbations inducing vibrations in the studied frequency range. The results indicate that mechanical relaxation analysis performed over relatively broad frequency ranges should be useful for predicting material properties of importance for the functionality of a material in applications such as, e.g., drug delivery, drug storage and handling, and also for clarifying the origin of hitherto unexplained molecular processes.

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PubMed2005

Electrodynamic investigations of ion transport and structural properties in drug-containing gels: dielectric spectroscopy and transient current measurements on catanionic carbopol systems.

The aim of this study is to show the potential of using electrodynamic methods as characterization tools in the controlled drug release process, on complex drug release systems. The two formulations under study were a Carbopol gel containing diphenhydramine and an identical gel also containing the surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate which forms catanionic vesicles with the diphenhydramine. The average diffusion coefficients were calculated from both the dielectric spectroscopy and the transient current measurements. Comparing the herein-obtained diffusion coefficients with those obtained in another study using a traditional USP technique for the same system, the values are virtually the same. The two electrodynamic methods proved to be potentially valuable tools for obtaining information about the concentration and the motion of the drug molecules inside the gel. The transient current measurements are particularly interesting in this case, as the method gives information not only on an average level, but also of the different charged moieties separately. Interestingly, it seems that the methods also are applicable for obtaining information about the mesh size in the gel.

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PubMed2003

Drug release modeled by dissolution, diffusion, and immobilization.

This article presents a novel drug release model that combines drug dissolution, diffusion, and immobilization caused by adsorption of the drug to the tablet constituents. Drug dissolution is described by the well-known Noyes-Whitney equation and drug adsorption by a Langmuir-Freundlich adsorption isotherm, and these two processes are included as source and sink terms in the diffusion equation. The model is applicable to tablets that disintegrate into a number of approximately spherical fragments. In order to simplify the analysis it is assumed that liquid absorption, matrix swelling, and tablet disintegration are much faster than drug dissolution and subsequent drug release. The resulting model is shown to yield release characteristics in good agreement with those observed experimentally.

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