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Which administration routes make up about 90% of them?

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oral, pulmonary, transdermal, parenteral

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What are the advantages of tablets and capsules?

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  • stability
  • accurate dose
  • patient compliance
  • low cost
  • additional functions such as taste masking or controlled release
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What are the disadvantages for tablets and capsules?

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  • not suitable for infants and children
  • not suitable for non-oral medications
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What are the advantages to IV solution?

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  • fast drug action
  • suitable for drugs that can’t tolerate GI tract environment
  • suitable for patients who are unable to swallow tablets or capsules
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What are the disadvantages to IV solution?

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  • expensive
  • not convenient
  • pain
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What are transdermal patches good for?

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local treatment

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What kind of drug do transdermal patches require?

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potent

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What are the advantages to intranasal sprays?

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  • mostly used for local treatment
  • can also be used for systemic drug delivery
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What are the factors that dictate route of administration?

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  • disease state treated
  • convenience to patients
  • marketing
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List the types of solid dosage forms.

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tablets, gelcaps, loose powders, lyophilized powders, controlled-release matrices

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What makes liqui-gels different?

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  • the drug is pre-dissolved
  • drug will still precipitate in stomach
  • has to re-dissolve
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What are the two types of tablets?

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compression, molded

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Describe compression tablets

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  • dominant
  • formed by compression
  • may or may not have coating
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How are molded tablets formed?

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melting

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What does the multicoat of a sugar-coated tablet contain?

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starch, calcium carbonate

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What percent weight does a sugar-coating add?

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50%

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What percent weight does a film-coated tablet add?

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2-6%

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What are the advantages to sugar-coated tablets?

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  • taste masking and/or identification
  • might enhance stability from oxidation
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What are the advantages of film-coated tablets?

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  • can avoid using moisture/water
  • put marking on tablets
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Describe multiple compression tablets

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  • have inner core and coating
  • inner core could be sugar tablet
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Describe multiple layer tablets

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  • lightly compress one layer
  • additional layers added
  • can put additional layers if needed to separate drugs
  • can be used for multiple types of release
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Characteristics of enteric-coated tablets

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  • resist dissolving in stomach
  • dissolve at higher pH
  • used for drugs that can irritate the stomach
  • cannot be crushed or chewed
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What are 3 examples of enteric-coated tablets?

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aspirin, omeprazole, sulfasalazine

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Describe chewable tablets

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  • large tablets designed to be chewed before being swallowed
  • may not need water
  • may help solubility
  • avoids swallowing issues
  • no disintegrant
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What are the common fillers for chewable tablets?
sorbitol, mannitol
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What is an example of a chewable tablet?
singulair (montelukast)
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How are effervescent tablets administered?
- dissolved in glass of water prior to administration
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What is the benefit of effervescent tablets releasing carbon dioxide?
- aids in disintegration/dissolution - creates a buffered solution with high pH
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What are the benefits to the fast action of effervescent tablets?
- faster bioavailability - less gastric irritation
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What do effervescent tablets need to be protected from?
moisture
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What type of capsule is commonly used for compounding?
hard gelatin
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What are hard and soft gelatin capsules made out of?
collagen
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Which kind of capsule uses two ribbons for manufacturing?
soft gelatin
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What are the characteristics of solution?
- faster to act - less stable - more for parenteral administration
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What are the characteristics of solid state?
- slower to act - more stable - more convenient - common for oral admin
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preformulation
determining the physicochemical properties necessary to formulate the compound
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formulation
determining the route and composition of the final dosage form
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Most organics have a relatively low solubility, unless they are ________.
salts
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What are the three states of solubility?
completely soluble, supersaturated, very supersaturated (labile)
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What will high levels of supersaturation result it?
crystallization
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Which is more reactive: crystal lattice or amorphous?
amorphous
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What are reactions dictated by?
availability of reactant
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Why can't you administer only the drug substance?
- unstable - needs taste masking - hard to administer
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What are some of the roles of excipients?
- preservative - solubility enhancer - stability enhancer - taste masking
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List the types of excipients
diluents, disintegrants, binders, lubricants, glidants, controlled release
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diluents
- referred to as bulking agents - needed to make practical weight for tablet - compression aid - enhances powder flow for manufacturing
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Examples of diluents
- microcrystalline cellulose, lactose, calcium phosphate dibasic dihydrate, starch, compressible sugar
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Disintegrants
- breaks up solid dosage forms, enhancing dissolution - works by either water uptake and/or swelling
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disintegrant examples
sodium starch glycolate, croscarmellose sodium, crospovidone, starch
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binders
- give tablets mechanical strength, creates granules in wet milling - works by either water uptake and/or swelling
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binder examples
polyvinylpyrrolidone, starch, mircrocrystalline cellulose, polymers
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lubricants
- prevents adherence of tablet to the die after compaction - overlubrication can affect dissolution - used at levels of 0.5% - 2%
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lubricant examples
magnesium stearate (most common), stearic acid, lubritab, talc
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glidants
- improves powder flow - stops inter-particle friction - used at levels of <0.2% - low bulk density -- fluffy - can have problems with asbestos (talc)
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gildants examples
fumed silica, talc
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controlled release
used to extend the release of drug from a matrix
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controlled release example
HPMC, hyromellose, xantham gum
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Roles of coloring agents
- improves esthetics - identification to user - control product - help in case of poisoning
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What properties do we need to know while formulating a dosage form?
- physical and chemical properties - mechanical properties - biopharmaceutical properties
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A drug needs to be _________
stable, bioavailable, deliverable
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Aqueous solubility
- concentration at which the solution is in equilibrium with the solid phase - depends on temp, pressure - key to bioavailability
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dissolution rate
- determines how quickly it goes into solution - might be enhanced by fast-dissolving tablets - important for in vivo- in vitro correlation - measured using simulated gastric fluid
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ionization constant
- affects dissolution, membrane partition, complexation, chemical stability, absorption - protonated or non-protonated
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polymorphism
- molecules may have multiple crystalline forms
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amorphous
- lack of long-range order - usually has higher solubility than crystalline form of drug - unstable - wants to crystallize - enhanced bioavailability -- good for poorly-soluble drugs
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hydroscopicity
- amount of water taken up by solid - significantly affects stability and manufacturability - water uptake can be used to measure surface area and disordered/high energy sites
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types of deformation
elastic, plastic, brittle fracture
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elastic
material deforms and then returns to equilibrium -- reversible
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plastic
material deforms beyond elastic deformation -- irreversible
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brittle fracture
material breaks into smaller fragments
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Goal of manufacturing
take API and turn it into a dosage form that is stable, soluble, and easy to administer
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unit operations
weighing, blending/mixing, milling, granulation, drying, compaction (tableting), coating, packaging
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modified release
one in which the time course, location of drug release, or both, are altered to accomplish therapeutic objectives not achieved by conventional dosage forms
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zero-order
releases drug at a constant and known rate
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variable release
releases drug at a variable rates so as to match circadian rhythms - useful when changes in blood concentrations are necessary
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bio-responsive
drug release triggered by a change in biological stimulus such as pH, temperature, or concentration of some disease marker
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Which modified release systems are practical?
delayed-release, extended-release
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delayed-release delivery system
one that releases a drug all at once but at a time other than promptly after administration -- often bioresponsive
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extended-release delivery system
achieves slow release over extended period of time
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What are two reasons to employ delayed-release?
- avoid release in stomach - chronotherapy
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chronotherapy
timing of drug release to be in harmony with biological rhythm of a disease
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What strategies can be used to avoid stomach pH?
- change the pH - avoid dissolution in stomach
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What size of doses have greater variation in peaks and valleys?
high dose
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How do you achieve constant blood level?
zero order
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reservoir device
core of drug surrounded by a poorly water-soluble polymeric membrane - diffusion of drug through membrane is rate-limiting step.
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matrix device
dissolved or dispersed drug is uniformly throughout a polymer matrix - diffusion through the matrix is rate-limiting step
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flux
mass of drug that moves through a membrane per unit time - Fick's law
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How are zero-order release kinetics attained?
- excess solid encapsulated makes this possible - C1 high and constant - C2 low and constant - all other factors constant, so Flux must be constant

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