Method used for Solubility Enhancement of Poorly water Soluble Drug-A Review

About author
Prasad Harendra*, Verma Navneet Kumar
Rameshwaram Institute of technology and Management Lucknow, U.P. India
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Abstract
The slow dissolution rate exhibited by poorly water-soluble drugs is a major challenge in the drug development process. Following oral administration, drugs with slow dissolution rates generally show erratic and incomplete absorption which may lead to therapeutic failure. The aim of this study was to improve the dissolution rate and subsequently the oral absorption and bioavailability of a model poorly water-soluble drug In recent years due to application of combinational chemistry and high-throughput screening during drug discovery, a majority of new drug candidates exhibits poor aqueous solubility, compounds to be very challenging for formulation scientists in development of bioavailable dosage forms. Although there was a great interest in solid dispersion systems during the past four decades to increase dissolution rate and bioavailability of poorly water-soluble drugs, their commercial use has been very limited, primarily because of manufacturing difficulties and stability problems. Solid dispersions of drugs were generally produced by melt or solvent evaporation methods. The materials, which were usually semisolid and waxy in nature, were hardened by cooling to very low temperatures. They were then pulverized, sieved, mixed with relatively large amounts of excipients and encapsulated into hard gelatin capsules or compressed into tablets. These operations were difficult to scale up for the manufacture of dosage forms. The situation has, however, been changing in recent years because of the availability of surface-active and self-emulsifying carriers and the development of technologies to encapsulate solid dispersions directly into hard gelatin capsules as melts.
Key words: Solid dispersion, Dissolution, Solubility, Bioavailability etc.