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Pharmaceutical Technology: Controlled Drug Release, Volume 2

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28 MATRIX FORMULATIONS [CH. 2<br />

Table 3—The effect of additives on the cloud points of 2% HPMC K15M gels<br />

Compounds including ethanol and polyethylene glycol increase the gel point by what is thought<br />

to be absorption of the large ion of relatively low water affinity onto the macromolecule [10],<br />

carrying with it water molecules and raising the degree of hydration [11]. However, differences<br />

were found between PEG 400 and PEG 6000 (Table 2) which caused salting in and out<br />

respectively, indicating a molecular weight dependence for PEG on the cloud point. The anionic<br />

surfactant sodium lauryl sulphate caused a salting in of the HPMC K100, probably by<br />

mechanisms similar to those of propanolol hydrochloride and promethazine hydrochloride.<br />

The effect of salts on the disintegration of tablets<br />

Touitou and Donbrow [8] have described three different kinds of responses when matrices were<br />

exposed to fluids containing solutes, namely (a) rapid disintegration, (b) gradual attrition and (c)<br />

maintenance of integrity. In Table 4 three different responses are shown to occur when HPMC<br />

K15M matrices without drug were exposed to disintegration tests. At low ionic strengths the<br />

matrices were unaffected by electrolytes and hydration occurred to produce an intact gel layer. At

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