Characterization of Supersaturatable Formulations for Improved Absorption of Poorly Soluble Drugs
Journal Title: The AAPS Journal - Year 2012, Vol 14, Issue 4
Abstract
With the increasing number of poorly water-soluble compounds in contemporary drug discovery pipelines, the concept of supersaturation as an effective formulation approach for enhancing bioavailability is gaining momentum. This is intended to design the formulation to yield significantly high intraluminal concentrations of the drug than the thermodynamic equilibrium solubility through achieving supersaturation and thus to enhance the intestinal absorption. The major challenges faced by scientists developing supersaturatable formulations include controlling the rate and degree of supersaturation with the application of polymeric precipitation inhibitor and maintenance of post-administration supersaturation. This review is intended to cover publications on this topic since April 2009. Scientific publications associated with characterization of supersaturatable systems and related preclinical and clinical pharmacokinetics (PK) studies are reviewed. Specifically, this review will address issues related to assessing the performance of supersaturatable systems including: (1) Diversified approaches for developing supersaturatable formulations, (2) meaningful in vitro test methods to evaluate supersaturatable formulations, and (3) in vivo PK study cases which have demonstrated direct relevance between the supersaturation state and the exposure observed in animal models and human subjects.
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Ping Gao, Yi Shi
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