DEVELOPMENT AND IN-VITRO CHARACTERIZATION OF OCULAR INSERT CONTAINING ERYTHROMYCIN
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Pharmacy (IRJP) - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 8
Abstract
Ocular drug delivery is one of the most fascinating and challenging tasks being faced by the Pharmaceutical researchers. The challenges to the formulator are to circumvent the protective barriers of the eye without causing permanent tissue damage, maintain a therapeutic level at the site of action for prolonged period of time. The eye drop dosage form is easy to instill but suffers the drawback of getting the medication immediately diluted in the tear film as soon it is instilled into the cul-de-sac and is rapidly drained away, therefore, only a very small fraction of the instilled dose is absorbed into the target tissues. The frequent periodic instillation of eye drops becomes necessary to maintain a continuous sustained level of medication, which may lead to systemic side effects. Frequent dosing of large doses of drug becomes necessary to achieve the therapeutic objective which often results in corresponding increase in local and systemic side effects. So research on Novel ophthalmic drug delivery systems is in progress to overcome all these disadvantages of conventional ophthalmic dosage forms. In the present study, efforts were made for designing and evaluating Erythromycin ocular inserts. Erythromycin, a macrolide antibiotic is highly useful for the treatment of trachoma, conjunctivitis and keratitis. Erythromycin suffered the disadvantage of instillation as it is available as 0.5% w/w ointment to be placed in eye 6 times a day and hence maximized patient non compliance, leading to ineffective therapy. Various batches of Erythromycin ocular inserts were prepared by solvent casting method using HPMC- K4M, PVP K30 and MC as polymers and PEG-400 as plasticizer. The formulated ocuserts were then evaluated for their average weight variation, thickness, folding endurance, swelling index, drug content, in-vitro drug release.
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Shweta Kaul , Ganesh Kumar , Preeti Kothiyal
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