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INTRODUCTION
The oral bioavailability depends on The aim of the present work was to
several factors including aqueous solubility, improve the aqueous solubility of the drug
drug permeability, dissolution rate, first-pass by using solid dispersion technique. Ethanol
metabolism, presystemic metabolism and was determined to be the solvent choice.
susceptibility to efflux mechanisms. The The polymers used were PVP K30, PVP
most frequent causes of low oral S630, HPMC & PEG 6000 and solid
bioavailability are attributed to poor dispersions were prepared by solvent
solubility and low permeability. evaporation method in different ratios. The
Hydrochlorthiazide1-2 is a diuretic effect was evaluated by measuring the In
drug belonging to the chemical class of vitro dissolution in water and permeation
benzoxazole derivative. It acts orally and the studies.
dosage used for treatment of congestive
heart failure and hypertension ranges from MATERIALS AND METHODS
25 to 50 mg daily alone or combination with
other antihypertensive drugs upto 100mg if Chemical and Reagents
necessary. HCTZ is a poorly water soluble HCTZ USP (EMCO Industries),
drug which has a reported bioavailability of HPMC E 15 CPS (Dow Chemical’s), PVP K
<65%.Therefore lots of efforts have been 30(Ashland specialty), Plasdone S630
made to increase dissolution of drug. (Ashland specialty), PEG 6000(Merck
Methods available to improve dissolution India), Ethanol (Merck India).All other
include salt formation, micronization and reagents and chemicals used were of
addition of solvent or surface active agents. analytical reagent grade and were used as
Solid dispersion3-6 (SD) is one of such such without any further purification.
methods and involves a dispersion of one or Purified water USP was used where ever
more active ingredients in an inert carrier or required.
matrix in solid state prepared by melting,
dissolution in solvent or melting-solvent EXPERIMENTAL
method. The formulation of having low
Solid dispersions were prepared by
aqueous solubility using solid technology
solvent evaporation technique7. The
has been an active area of research since
formulation composition details are given in
1960. Among the various approaches to
table1.
improve solubility, the SD technique has
All batches were evaluated for assay
often proved to be the most successful in
and uniformity of content. Each sample
improving the dissolution and bioavailability
(approximately 2.5mg) was subjected to
of poorly soluble drugs because it is simple,
differential scanning calorimetry over a range
economic, and advantageous.
of 500C to 300oC. Samples were heated under
nitrogen atmosphere.(Flow rate of N2-
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Figure 6. Comparision of drug release from 1:5 sds at 5 min and 30 min
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