Journal
JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE
Volume 112, Issue 3, Pages 293-300Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2006.02.015
Keywords
biodegradable polymers; dexamethasone; mechanism of release; diffusion-control led; polymer degradation
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Drug release from four different poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) rnicrosphere formulations was evaluated under real-time (37 degrees C) and accelerated release testing conditions of elevated temperature (45, 53, 60 and 70 degrees C) and increase in flow rate (4-35 ml/min) using United States Pharmacopeia (USP) apparatus 4. Formulation 5 K (composed of low Mw PLGA) exhibited diffusion-controlled kinetics in real-time. Whereas, formulations 25 K, 28 K and 70 K (composed of medium and high Mw PLGA) followed erosion-controlled kinetics at 37 degrees C. Temperature-induced degradation of the microspheres was studied by monitoring drug release rates, change in molecular weight and morphological changes. Drug release rates at elevated temperature were used to predict real-time release applying the Arrhenius equation. The energy of activation for dexamethasone release from PLGA microspheres was calculated as 19.14 kcal/mol. Molecular weight change measured by gel permeation chromatography followed first order kinetics for both real-time and accelerated release. All four formulations exhibited morphological changes (such as surface pore closing and geometry change) at elevated temperature with consequent reduction in burst release. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.
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