Personalised paediatric chewable Ibuprofen tablets fabricated using 3D micro-extrusion printing technology

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Three-dimensional (3D) printing is becoming an attractive technology for the design and development of personalized paediatric dosage forms with improved palatability. In this work micro-extrusion based printing was implemented for the fabrication of chewable paediatric ibuprofen (IBU) tablets by assessing a range of front runner polymers in taste masking. Due to the drug-polymer miscibility and the IBU plasticization effect, micro-extrusion was proved to be an ideal technology for processing the drug/polymer powder blends for the printing of paediatric dosage forms. The printed tablets presented high printing quality with reproducible layer thickness and a smooth surface. Due to the drug-polymer interactions induced during printing processing, IBU was found to form a glass solution confirmed by differential calorimetry (DSC) while H-bonding interactions were identified by confocal Raman mapping. IBU was also found to be uniformly distributed within the polymer matrices at molecular level. The tablet palatability was assessed by panellists and revealed excellent taste masking of the IBU's bitter taste. Overall micro-extrusion demonstrated promising processing capabilities of powder blends for rapid printing and development of personalised dosage forms.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:626

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International journal of pharmaceutics - 626(2022) vom: 15. Okt., Seite 122135

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tabriz, Atabak Ghanizadeh [VerfasserIn]
Nandi, Uttom [VerfasserIn]
Scoutaris, Nicolaos [VerfasserIn]
Sanfo, Karifa [VerfasserIn]
Alexander, Bruce [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Yuchuan [VerfasserIn]
Hui, Ho-Wah [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Sumit [VerfasserIn]
Douroumis, Dennis [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3D printing
Excipients
Ibuprofen
Journal Article
Micro-extrusion
Paediatric
Personalized
Polymers
Powders
Raman mapping
Tablets
Taste masking
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Date Completed 29.09.2022

Date Revised 29.09.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijpharm.2022.122135

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NLM345455622