Bioavailability enhancement of a COX-2 inhibitor, BMS-347070, from a nanocrystalline dispersion prepared by spray-drying

Autor: Ronald L. Smith, Munir A. Hussain, Alice Hsieh, Miriam K. Franchini, Sandy Jen, Jinling Chen, Shawn X. Yin, Tu Lee
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 94:1598-1607
ISSN: 0022-3549
DOI: 10.1002/jps.20366
Popis: Spray drying drug with excipients is usually associated with the preparation of microcrystalline or amorphous drug in order to improve bioavailability. It was found that BMS-347070, when spray-dried with Pluronic F127 from acetone or methylene chloride, was dispersed as nanosized crystalline drug within the water-soluble Pluronic matrix. The reduction in drug particle/crystallite size, coupled with wetting by the Pluronic, resulted in a fast-onset formulation with bioavailability comparable to that of a solubilized and a NanoCrystal formulation. For this system, it is theorized that the polyethylene oxide segments of Pluronic crystallize and that the polypropylene oxide segments remain amorphous, providing a size-restricted domain in which the COX-2 drug crystallizes. This results in improved bioavailability while limiting the potential risk of conversion of an amorphous drug to its crystalline state.
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