Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting – deodorizing – preser – Analyzer – structured indicator – or manipulative laboratory... – Means for analyzing liquid or solid sample
Reexamination Certificate
1997-08-21
2001-01-16
Ludlow, Jan (Department: 1743)
Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preser
Analyzer, structured indicator, or manipulative laboratory...
Means for analyzing liquid or solid sample
C073S866000, C073S866500, C422S082010, C422S082090, C422S082110, C436S151000, C436S164000, C436S173000, C436S181000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06174497
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Dissolution testing is required for all solid oral pharmaceutical solid dosage form forms in which absorption of the drug is necessary for the product to exert the desired therapeutic effect. The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) is one well-known standard source of information which provides for dissolution and drug release testing in the majority of monographs for such dosage forms. Exceptions are for tablets meeting a requirement for completeness of solution or for rapid (10 to 15 minutes) disintegration for soluble or radiolabled drugs. The apparatus and procedure conform to the requirements and specificaitons given, e.g., USP 23rd edition Chapter 711 (Dissolution) pages 1791-1793. Dissolution testing serves as a measure of quality control, stability and uniformity as well as a means by which to correlate in-vitro with in-vivo drug release characteristics.
Current USP dissolution methods most commonly employ a temperature programmable water bath, maintained at about 37° C., in which sample vessels are submerged. These vessels contain a predetermined volume of a dissolution media and a means to agitate the contents of the vessel. This may be accomplished by means of a rotating basket attached to a shaft or with a paddle which is also attached to a shaft, both means generally described in USP 23rd edition Chapter 711 (Dissolution) pages 1791-1793. The solid dosage form is placed into the media filled vessel at time zero and specific vessel temperature and mixing speeds are maintained. At fixed time intervals (e.g. 2, 4, 8 hours, etc.) a small aliquot of sample is taken from each vessel, usually by a multi channeled pumping system, and transported to either a cuvette or a sample vial for subsequent spectrophotometric or high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis, respectively. Plotting percentage dissolution of a solid dosage form through time results in a dissolution profile.
Of the two methods discussed above, the HPLC method is usually favored over the spectrophotometric method. While HPLC dissolution offers the advantage of specificity, acceptable accuracy, precision and sensitivity, the disadvantage of the status quo rather lies with the inherent burden of creating, manipulating, and storing voluminous numbers of sequence and data files. The cost of TPLC, columns, mobile phases, and the waste solvent disposal, etc., is substantial and the limited number of data points that can be determined may result in a less than ideal representation of the release profile of a solid dosage form over time. Furthermore, HPLC analysis is a sequential time consuming process. In general, a typical 24 hour dissolution requires up to 60 hours to generate a dissolution profile.
Because of the aforementioned disadvantages of currently available systems, an in-situ dissolution method is desirable.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an improvement in a detection system used for continuously measuring the release of a drug from a pharmaceutical dosage form comprising a singular dissolution vessel or multiple dissolution vessels containing a dissolution medium and a measuring device for detecting the amount of drug released at a given time, the improvement comprising a mixing shaft and a probe placed within the mixing shaft or outside the individual dissolution vessels, the probe capable of measuring the dissolution characteristics using UV, IR, near-IR, fluorescence, electrochemical, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and Raman spectroscopy techniques.
The present invention also relates to a method for predicting the dissolution curve provided by a controlled release pharmaceutical dosage form comprising taking continuous measurements of the amount of drug released from a dosage form for a portion of the time over which the drug is expected to be released and predicting the remainder of the dissolution curve based on the values obtained.
The present invention relates to a in-situ dissolution methods to evaluate and study the dissolution characteristics of drug formulations. Such methods utilize systems that include fiber optics, ultraviolet spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, NMR and the like.
The present invention specifically relates to detection systems for measuring dissolution characteristics of pharmaceutical dosage forms using ultraviolet, IR, near-IR, and Raman spectroscopy techniques as well as electrochemical techniques such as polarography, and NMR.
These and other aspects of the present invention can be followed by one skilled in the art by reading the detailed description and the methods provided by the instant invention.
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Bynum Kevin
Cheng Frank S.
Palermo Philip J.
Roinestad Kurt
Davidson Davidson & Kappel LLC
Euro-Celtique S.A.
Ludlow Jan
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