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Application of general multilevel factorial design with formulation of fast disintegrating tablets containing croscaremellose sodium and Disintequick MCC-25

Solaiman, Amanda, Suliman, Ammar Said, Shinde, Swapnil, Naz, Sidra and Elkordy, Amal (2016) Application of general multilevel factorial design with formulation of fast disintegrating tablets containing croscaremellose sodium and Disintequick MCC-25. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 501 (1-2). pp. 87-95. ISSN 0378-5173

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Abstract

Despite the popularity of orally fast disintegrating tablets (FDTs), their formulation can sometimes be challenging, producing tablets with either poor mechanical properties or high disintegration times. The aim of this research was to enhance the properties of FDTs produced by direct compression to have both sufficient hardness to withstand manual handling, and rapid disintegration time. General multilevel factorial design was applied to optimise and evaluate main and interaction effects of independent variables (i) disintegrant concentration, (ii) % filler (Disintequick MCC-25) to mannitol on the responses hardness, tensile strength and disintegration time. In this experiment mannitol was used as a diluent, Disintequick MCC-25 (to best of our knowledge there is no publication available yet for its use with FDTs) was termed in this study as a filler and croscaremellose sodium was used as the superdisintegrant. Seven formulations were prepared following a progressive two-stage approach. Each stage involved the change in the ratio of excipients (Mannitol:Filler) (1:0), (1:0.25), (1:0.50), (1:1), (0.50:1), (0.25:1), (0:1) w/w and concentration of superdisintegrant (1%, 3%, 5%, 7%, 10% w/w). All FDTs were tested for different parameters such as diameter, hardness, tensile strength, thickness, friability and disintegration time. The results of multiple linear regression analysis show a good degree of correlation between experimental (R2:0.84, 0.94, 0.91) and predicted response (R2:0.83, 0.96, 0.95) for hardness, tensile strength and disintegration time respectively. The optimum formulations (regarding disintegration time with acceptable hardness and friability properties) consisted of: (i) 5% w/w disintegrant and 20% w/w filler to mannitol, showing a disintegration time of 30 s, a hardness of 66.6 N (6.8 kg/cm2) and friability of 2.2%; (ii) 7% or 10% w/w disintegrant with 33.33% w/w filler to mannitol, showing disintegration time of 84 s (for 7% disintegrant) and 107 s (for 10% disintegrant), hardness of 73.86 N (for 7% disintegrant) and 72.68 N (for 10% disintegrant) and friability of 1.44 (for 7% disintegrant) and 1.15% (for 10% disintegrant).

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Item ID: 5945
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2016.01.065
ISSN: 0378-5173
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/5945
Official URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...

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ORCID for Amal Elkordy: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0781-1127

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Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2016 12:01
Last Modified: 16 May 2022 13:00

Contributors

Author: Amal Elkordy ORCID iD
Author: Amanda Solaiman
Author: Ammar Said Suliman
Author: Swapnil Shinde
Author: Sidra Naz

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Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing
Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing > School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

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