Design of controlled release delivery systems using a modified pharmacokinetic approach: a case study for drugs having a short elimination half-life and a narrow therapeutic index.
The objectives of peroral controlled release drug delivery systems (CRDDS) are to maintain therapeutically effective plasma drug concentration levels for a longer duration thereby reducing the dosing frequency and to minimise the plasma drug concentration fluctuations at steady state by delivering drug in a controlled and a reproducible manner. Drug delivery rate, duration of delivery and the dosing interval are the target features for any temporal CRDDS. The classical pharmacokinetic model for designing CRDDS [Drug Dev. Ind. Pharm. 15 (1989) 1073] assumes the time of drug delivery (t(del)) to be less than the dosing interval. However, termination of drug release from such a CRDDS at t(del) and/or a declining drug input function towards the terminal phase of t(del) from a first order kinetic CRDDS can have severe implications on plasma drug concentration and steady state fluctuations for a drug with very short half-life. A case study is presented in this paper, wherein by means of theoretical calculations using a classical pharmacokinetic approach, it is shown that a first order kinetic CRDDS for hypothetical drugs with short elimination half-life and different pharmacokinetic conditions would result in sub-therapeutic plasma concentrations at least for some time during the dosing interval at steady state. In order to avoid sub-therapeutic plasma drug concentrations a modification in classical pharmacokinetic model is proposed and discussed through theoretical calculations for different hypothetical pharmacokinetic situations and a practical single dose pharmacokinetic study with a first order kinetic CRDDS for nifedipine (a short half-life drug; about 2h). It is shown that improved therapeutic efficacy could be expected from a CRDDS developed based on proposed modification in the classical pharmacokinetic model.
Sood
Anurag
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Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, 160062, Punjab, S.A.S. Nagar, India.
Panchagnula
Ramesh
R
D000284:Administration, Oral; D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; D003692:Delayed-Action Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D006207:Half-Life; D006801:Humans; D007408:Intestinal Absorption; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate; D008954:Models, Biological; D009543:Nifedipine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000097:blood / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D012995:Solubility; D014018:Tissue Distribution
D003692:Delayed-Action Preparations; D009543:Nifedipine