Pestle Analysis Lab

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This test was carried out by choosing three tablets from each formulation after weighing them. The temperature of the dissolution apparatus was adjusted at 37°C and the speed of paddles was constant at 50rpm.After that, each vessel of the dissolution apparatus was full with 1 liter of phosphate buffer. Subsequently, each tablet was placed into its individual vessel. The test was performed over 8 hours with extracting 10mL of each sample and replaced with the same amount of the phosphate buffer which was at the same temperature over the 8 hours as the following: half an hour, one hour, two hours, three hours, four hours, five hours, six hours, seven hours and eight hours. The all withdrawn samples were analyzed by using the UV spectroscopy …show more content…

Each tablet was placed on pre-weighed container, and then they were weighted by using the digital balanceafter making sure that any extra drops of water was uninvolved and the container was completely dry and clean. This step was repeated for each tablet to determine the exact swelling percentage through the following formula *Where Ws represents the swollen sample while Wi represents the initial mass of the tablet. All the tablets were kept in the oven where the temperature was around 70°C for the next day in order to dry them. The tablets with the container were weighted together again after making sure that they were completely dry without moisture in order to determine the erosion percentage by applying the following formula *Where Wi is the initial mass of the tablet, while Wt is the mass of the dried tablet Kinetic modelling The kinetics of drug release were calculated using the results of the dissolution test and after plotting the lines in different ways to perform the kinetics models for example first order, zero order, Korsmeyer-peppas, Higutchi and finally Hixson-crowell. First order was performed to assist in the description of the drug dissolution in formulations. The formula to obtain results was : First order = …show more content…

Korsmeyer-Peppas model was utilised to evaluate if the dosage forms follow either Fickiane diffusion or non-Fickiane diffusion using the following formula; Korsmeyer-Peppas=Mt/M∞=ktn Where Mt/M∞= represents the portion of released drug at specific time (t), k refers to the rate of released content and nrepresents the release exponent. the chart is performed by plotting the log time versus the proportion of released drug . Higuchi model was applied to explain the dissolution of drug comes out of a matrix tablet using the following formula: Higuchi = Qt= Kh x t1/2 Where Qt represents the quantity of the dissolved drug in specific time,Kh represents Higuchi dissolution constant while t represents the time. The chart is performed through the proportion of released drug versus thesquare root of time. Finally, the model of Hixson-crowellusing the following formula ; Hixson-crowell= Q01/3 -Qt1/3 = Kst Where Q0stills as it is in the previous model,Qt refers to the quantity of unreleased drug ,whileKsrepresent Hixson-crowell constant at particular time (t)

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