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QUIMICA NOVA
Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 1966-1972Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA QUIMICA
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-40422008000800009
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indomethacin; microparticles; nanocapsules
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The aim of this work was to prepare and characterize spray-dried nanocapsule-coated microparticles obtained in one step, using indomethacin as a hydrophobic drug model and poly(epsilon-caprolactone) or Eudragit (R) RS100, as polymers. Nanocapsule-coated microparticles showed micrometric mean sizes (10-15 mu m) and a reduced surface area (75 - 85 m(2)g(-1)) compared to the raw material (214 m(2)g(-1)). Microparticles coated with Eudragit (R) RS100-nanocapsules showed a better control of the drug release. The release profiles fit to the monoexponetial model and to the Power Law. The mechanism of the indomethacin release from the microparticles is non-Fickian and depends on the particles desagglomeration.
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