Stability Development, Optimization and Evaluation of Gastro-Retentive Microspheres of Antidiabetic Agent by Full Factorial Design.

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: This work is aimed to Formulate, Optimize and Evaluate Gastro-Retentive Microspheres of Antidiabetic Agent by Full Factorial Design. METHODS: Microspheres were prepared using Emulsification-cross linking technique. To this HPMC-K4M and Carbopol was dissolved in 250 ml of water and allowed to swell for 24 hr at room temperature. And separately chitosan was dissolved in 3% (v/v) glacial acetic acid and this also kept for 24 h to swell or dissolve properly. After 24hr this swelled mixture was mixed under magnetic stirrer (Remi, India) at specific stirring rate for 1hr in order to find homogeneous mass of both the gum. Then slurry of chitosan also was homogenized for half an hour. The drug, Glipizide (1g) was then added to the chitosan solution and mixed homogenesously. RESULTS: The aim of the study was to formulate and evaluate microspheres, for Gastro-Retentive Microspheres of the chosen drug. The EE of microspheres was found to be 91.52%, maximum . Buoyancy property observed was 93.82% for Optimized formulation F-9, Drug release 57.34% till 8 h. The work also aims to study various parameters affecting the behaviour of microspheres in oral dosage form. CONCLUSION: Drugs with short half-life that are absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) are eliminated rapidly from the blood flow. To avoid this, the oral SR Gastro-retentive was developed as this formulation released the drug slowly into the GIT and maintained a stable drug concentration in the serum for a longer duration of time.