FORMULATION, DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF BI-LAYER TABLET OF ANTI HIV DRUG
Abstract
In the last decade, interest in developing a combination of two or more Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) in a single dosage form (bi-layer tablet) has increased in the pharmaceutical industry, promoting patient convenience and compliance. The Bi-layer tablets have been developed to achieve controlled delivery of different drugs with pre-defined release profiles. Bi-layer tablets can be a primary option to avoid chemical incompatibilities between API by physical separation, and to enable the development of different drug release profiles (immediate release with extended release). Despite their advantages, due to the use of different materials and complex geometric boundaries between the adjacent layers, the mechanical structures of this drug delivery system have become quite intricate, requiring complicated tablet architectures as well as patient-friendly. Bi-layer tablets offer definite advantages over conventional release formulation of the same drug. Several pharmaceutical companies are currently developing bi-layer tablets. For a variety of reasons: patent extension, therapeutic, marketing to name a few. To reduce capital investment, quite often existing but modified tablet presses are used to develop and produce such tablets.
Key words: Bi-layered tablet, API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients), adjacent layer, conventional release, insufficient hardness.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.22270/jddt.v9i4-s.3224Published


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