Mixture design approach for early stage formulation development of a transdermal delivery system

Michaelis, M; Leopold, CS

HERO ID

4929288

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year

2015

Language

English

PMID

25308745

HERO ID 4929288
In Press No
Year 2015
Title Mixture design approach for early stage formulation development of a transdermal delivery system
Authors Michaelis, M; Leopold, CS
Journal Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy
Volume 41
Issue 9
Page Numbers 1532-1540
Abstract Transdermal delivery systems (TDS) consisting of mixtures of adhesives also named multiple polymer adhesive systems are rarely found in the market and research has only been performed on a few of them. Following the principles of ICH Q8, a Design of Experiments (DOE) approach was selected for the formulation development. For evaluation of the statistical method of "mixture design", blends of silicon adhesive, acrylic adhesive, oleyl alcohol as a surfactant and ibuprofen as a model drug were considered to be combined at different concentrations. A randomized design of 16 runs with five replicates and five runs to estimate the lack of fit (LOF) was generated. Samples were tested for adhesion properties, stability of the wet mixes, solubility of the API in the matrix and appearance of the matrix. After performing an ANOVA with the results, response surfaces of tack, shear adhesion, extent of creaming, crystallization behavior, droplet size and droplet size range were derived as contour plots. It could be shown that crystal growth of ibuprofen correlates well with droplet size and droplet size range, where lowest values for crystallization were found with mixtures containing small droplets. However, it was observed that oleyl alcohol showed no positive effect on the miscibility of the polymers and no improvement of the solubility of ibuprofen in the mixtures. With a reasonable number of experiments, the development of a design space for a TDS via mixture design gave valuable information on the product as well as on the interactions of the components.
Doi 10.3109/03639045.2014.971029
Pmid 25308745
Wosid WOS:000361333500017
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