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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS
Volume 49, Issue 1, Pages 47-58Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0939-6411(99)00058-2
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relaxation; swellable systems; drug release; poly(vinyl alcohol); poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)
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The water swelling and drug diffusion from initially hydrophilic, glassy polymer matrices were modeled using concentration-dependent diffusion equations for water and drug. The transport equation for water incorporated a relaxation-dependent mechanism. These equations were solved with an appropriate boundary condition incorporating a relaxation-dependent Deborah number. Experimental results from drug release from PVA and PHEMA samples were used to determine the validity of the model. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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