Formulation and Evaluation of Nanosuspension Formulation for Drug Delivery of Simvastatin

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https://doi.org/10.37285/ijpsn.2014.7.4.7

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  • Rupali L. Shid
  • Shashikant N. Dhole
  • Nilesh Kulkarni
  • Santosh L. Shid

Abstract

Poor water solubility and slow dissolution rate are issues drug content and polydispersity index. The obtained for the majority of upcoming and existing biologically results showed that particle size (nm) and rate of active compounds. Simvastatin is poorly water-soluble  dissolution has been improved when nanosuspension drug and its bioavailability is very low from its crystalline prepared with the higher concentration of PVPK-30 and form. The purpose of the present investigation was to Poloxamer-188 and lower concentration of SLS. The increase the solubility and dissolution rate of simvastatin by particle size and zeta potential of optimized formulation the preparation of nanosuspension by Emulsification was found to be 258.3 nm and 23.43. The rate of Solvent Diffusion Method at laboratory scale. Prepared dissolution of the optimized nanosuspension was nanosuspension was evaluated for its particle size and enhanced (90.02% in 60min), relative to plain simvastatin in vitro dissolution study and characterized by zeta (21% in 60 min), mainly due to the formation of nanosized potential, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and particles. These results indicate the suitability of 23 factorial X-Ray diffractometry (XRD), Motic digital microscopy, design for preparation of simvastatin loaded nanosus- entrapment efficiency, total drug content, saturated pension significantly improved in vitro dissolution rate, solubility study and in vivo study. A 23 factorial design was and thus possibly enhance fast onset of therapeutic drug employed to study the effect of independent variables, effect. In vivo study shows increase in bioavailability in amount of SLS (X1), amount of PVPK-30 (X2) and nanosuspension formulation than the plain simvastatin Poloxamer-188 (X3) and dependent variables are Total drug. 

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Simvastatin, Nanosuspension, Emulsification Solvent Diffusion, Dissolution, Particle Size, Factorial design

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2014-11-30

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Shid RL, Dhole SN, Kulkarni N, Shid SL. Formulation and Evaluation of Nanosuspension Formulation for Drug Delivery of Simvastatin. Scopus Indexed [Internet]. 2014 Nov. 30 [cited 2024 Jul. 6];7(4):2650-65. Available from: http://ijpsnonline.com/index.php/ijpsn/article/view/751

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