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CHAPTER 9: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK9.1 Overall conclusionsHot-<strong>melt</strong> <strong>extrusion</strong> (HME) h<strong>as</strong> proved to be a robust method <strong>of</strong> producingseveral drug delivery systems and <strong>the</strong>re<strong>for</strong>e it h<strong>as</strong> been found to be useful in <strong>the</strong>pharmaceutical industry enlarging <strong>the</strong> scope to include a range <strong>of</strong> polymers and APIs that canbe processed with or without pl<strong>as</strong>ticizers. In this current study HME processing w<strong>as</strong>employed <strong>as</strong> a means to incre<strong>as</strong>e <strong>the</strong> dissolution rates <strong>of</strong> three water insoluble drugs. INMand FMT were extruded with SOL, VA64 and S630 at different loadings up to 40% without<strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> traditional pl<strong>as</strong>ticizers while IBU w<strong>as</strong> extruded and embedded withinEudragit EPO polymer matrix. The <strong>extrusion</strong> process w<strong>as</strong> optimized to produce amorphoussolid dispersions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> drug substances. Fur<strong>the</strong>r physicochemical characterization studiesconfirmed <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>oretical drug – polymer miscibility <strong>for</strong> all binary mixtures <strong>as</strong> predicted by<strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>oretical approaches <strong>of</strong> Greenhalgh and Bagley. Incre<strong>as</strong>ed aqueous solubility w<strong>as</strong>observed in both API mixtures with all polymers, and <strong>the</strong> extruded solid dispersions resultedin greater dissolution rates compared to <strong>the</strong> bulk drugs. The in vivo t<strong>as</strong>te-m<strong>as</strong>king evaluation<strong>of</strong> extruded IBU <strong>for</strong>mulations showed that HME processing can be used to efficiently m<strong>as</strong>k<strong>the</strong> t<strong>as</strong>te <strong>of</strong> bitter active substances without compromising tablet palatability. The ODTsdeveloped displayed disintegration times and crushing resistance similar to commercialNur<strong>of</strong>en® tablets but improved tablet friability. Finally <strong>the</strong> incre<strong>as</strong>ed IBU rele<strong>as</strong>e rates <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>developed ODTs were f<strong>as</strong>ter than <strong>the</strong> commercial Nur<strong>of</strong>en® tablets.PMOL w<strong>as</strong> found to exist in ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> crystalline or amorphous state depending on<strong>the</strong> polymer used <strong>for</strong> <strong>extrusion</strong>. The optimized <strong>for</strong>mulations were evaluated in terms <strong>of</strong> t<strong>as</strong>tem<strong>as</strong>king efficiency both by in vivo human panellists and an electronic tongue. The extruded<strong>for</strong>mulations <strong>of</strong> VA64 demonstrated better t<strong>as</strong>te m<strong>as</strong>king compared to those <strong>of</strong> EPO while <strong>the</strong>e-tongue w<strong>as</strong> found to be a valuable tool <strong>for</strong> t<strong>as</strong>te m<strong>as</strong>king <strong>as</strong>sessments and <strong>for</strong>mulationdevelopment. Similarly, DPD, PRP, CTZ and VRP were found to be in <strong>the</strong> amorphous stateafter <strong>extrusion</strong> due to <strong>the</strong> <strong>for</strong>mation <strong>of</strong> solid dispersions. The optimized <strong>for</strong>mulationsevaluated by both in vivo and in vitro t<strong>as</strong>te m<strong>as</strong>king tests correlated with each o<strong>the</strong>r very well.The extruded <strong>for</strong>mulations <strong>of</strong> L100 demonstrated better t<strong>as</strong>te m<strong>as</strong>king compared to those <strong>of</strong>EZE while <strong>the</strong> e-tongues were found to be a valuable tool <strong>for</strong> t<strong>as</strong>te m<strong>as</strong>king <strong>as</strong>sessments and<strong>for</strong>mulation development.170 | P a g e

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