An Approach to Oral Controlled Drug Delivery: Floating Drug Delivery System

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Punit Gupta*, Pavin Yadav, Kapil soni, Jitendra Kumar Kumawat
Maharishi Arvind Institute of Pharmacy, Jaipur-302020, Rajasthan, India

Abstract
The oral route is increasingly being used for the delivery of therapeutic agents because the low cost of the therapy and ease of administration lead to high levels of patient compliance. More than 50% of the drug delivery systems available in the market are oral drug delivery systems. Technological attempts have been made in the research and development of rate-controlled oral drug delivery systems to overcome physiological adversities, such as short gastric residence times (GRT) and unpredictable gastric emptying times (GET). It is known that differences in gastric physiology, such as, gastric pH, and motility exhibit both intra-as well as inter-subject variability demonstrating significant impact on gastric retention time and drug delivery behavior. Several approaches are currently utilized in the prolongation of the GRT, including floating drug delivery systems (FDDS), swelling and expanding systems, polymeric bioadhesive systems, high-density systems, modified-shape systems and other delayed gastric emptying devices. In this review, current & recent developments of Stomach Specific FDDS are discussed. The present review addresses briefly about the floating drug delivery systems.
Key words: Floating drug delivery system, Gastric residence time, Buoyancy, Oral route