FORMULATION AND EVALUTION OF MOUTH DISSOLVING TABLETS OF AMITRIPTYLINE HYDROCHLORIDE BY DIRECT COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE
A. Mohsin, Nimbalakr N. E
Abstract
A. Mohsin, Nimbalakr N. E
Abstract
Fast dissolving drug delivery system offers a solution for those patients having difficulty in swallowing tablet. In the present study, an attempt has been made to prepare fast dissolving tablets of the drug Amitriptyline hydrochloride using superdisintegrants such as Croscarmellose sodium (Ac‐Di‐Sol), Sodium starch glycolate (Explotab) and Crospovidone by direct compression technique. The prepared tablets were evaluated for hardness, friability, wetting time, weight variation, in vitro disintegration time and in vitro dissolution study. The hardness of the tablets was in the range of 2.0 ‐ 4.0 Kg/cm². The percentage friability of the tablets was less than one. Weight variation test results showed that the tablets were deviating from the average weight within the permissible limits of ±7.5 %. Drug content uniformity study results showed that uniform dispersion of the drug throughout the formulation i.e. 98.54% to 101.23%. Tablets containing Crospovidone (DC9) showed better disintegrating character along with the rapid release (99.83% drug within 7 minutes). No appreciable difference was found between the formulations containing other two superdisintegrants. Crospovidone was found to be better suited for the formulation of mouth dissolving tablet of Amitriptyline hydrochloride compared to other superdisintegrarnts used in the study.
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Fast dissolving drug delivery system offers a solution for those patients having difficulty in swallowing tablet. In the present study, an attempt has been made to prepare fast dissolving tablets of the drug Amitriptyline hydrochloride using superdisintegrants such as Croscarmellose sodium (Ac‐Di‐Sol), Sodium starch glycolate (Explotab) and Crospovidone by direct compression technique. The prepared tablets were evaluated for hardness, friability, wetting time, weight variation, in vitro disintegration time and in vitro dissolution study. The hardness of the tablets was in the range of 2.0 ‐ 4.0 Kg/cm². The percentage friability of the tablets was less than one. Weight variation test results showed that the tablets were deviating from the average weight within the permissible limits of ±7.5 %. Drug content uniformity study results showed that uniform dispersion of the drug throughout the formulation i.e. 98.54% to 101.23%. Tablets containing Crospovidone (DC9) showed better disintegrating character along with the rapid release (99.83% drug within 7 minutes). No appreciable difference was found between the formulations containing other two superdisintegrants. Crospovidone was found to be better suited for the formulation of mouth dissolving tablet of Amitriptyline hydrochloride compared to other superdisintegrarnts used in the study.
Key concepts: Friability, Dissolution, Croscarmellose sodium, Chromatography, Materials science, Dosage form, Magnesium stearate, Chemistry