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spondylitis, tendinitis and headaches [19, 20] . It is known <strong>as</strong> a Cl<strong>as</strong>s II active substance whichexerts high permeability and low bioavailability [19] due to <strong>the</strong> poor water solubility. The twodrugs were chosen to represent <strong>the</strong> two cl<strong>as</strong>ses and to compare <strong>the</strong> effect <strong>of</strong> HME on incre<strong>as</strong>ing<strong>the</strong>ir percent loading and dissolution properties which are important <strong>for</strong> improving <strong>the</strong>irbioavailability. To <strong>the</strong> best <strong>of</strong> our knowledge, this is <strong>the</strong> first study comparing two differentpoorly water soluble drugs from two BCS cl<strong>as</strong>ses <strong>for</strong> drug loading and drug dissolutionproperties.Both FMT and INM have been reported to be molecularly dispersed in various polymermatrices in order to provide quick rele<strong>as</strong>e pr<strong>of</strong>iles [16,19,20,21] . In <strong>the</strong> present study, soliddispersions <strong>of</strong> relatively high loadings <strong>of</strong> INM and FMT (up to 40%) embedded in hydrophilicpolymers such <strong>as</strong> SOL, VA64, and S630 were prepared using <strong>hot</strong>-<strong>melt</strong> <strong>extrusion</strong> in order toachieve f<strong>as</strong>ter dissolution pr<strong>of</strong>iles. The in vitro dissolution properties and physico-chemicalproperties <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> solid dispersions were investigated and compared with <strong>the</strong> physical mixturesand <strong>the</strong> pure APIs alone.2.0 Materials and Methods2.1 MaterialsIndomethacin (INM) w<strong>as</strong> purch<strong>as</strong>ed from Sigma Aldrich (London, UK) and Famotidine(FMT) w<strong>as</strong> donated by Colorcon Ltd (Dart<strong>for</strong>d, UK). Soluplus and cross-linkedpolyvinylpyrrolidone kollidon VA64 were kindly donated by BASF (Germany). Pl<strong>as</strong>done S630w<strong>as</strong> obtained from ISP. All HPLC solvents were <strong>of</strong> analytical grade and purch<strong>as</strong>ed from FisherChemicals (UK).2.2 Drug-polymer miscibility study by Hansen solubility parameters ()The Hansen [22] solubility parameters () <strong>of</strong> both drugs <strong>as</strong> well <strong>as</strong> <strong>the</strong> polymers werecalculated by considering <strong>the</strong>ir chemical structural orientations. In order to determine <strong>the</strong><strong>the</strong>oretical drug/polymer miscibility, <strong>the</strong> solubility parameters were calculated by using <strong>the</strong>H<strong>of</strong>tyzer and van Krevelen method [23] according to <strong>the</strong> following equation: 2d 2p 2h(2.1)Where,20 | P a g e

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