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A generalized method was investigated for conversion of controlled-porosity osmotic pump release profiles from first-order to zero-order kinetics using diltiazem · HC1 as a model drug. Diltiazem · HC1 has an aqueous solubility >590 mg/ml (37°C) and was released from controlled-porosity osmotic pump devices with first-order kinetics. This high solubility was markedly reduced (155 mg/ ml; 37°C) in the presence of NaCl (1 M). Based on theory for osmotically actuated drug release, this reduced solubility would be expected to result in a zero-order release profile of >80% of an initial diltiazem · HC1 load. Devices were prepared with cores that contained diltiazem · HC1 and sufficient NaCl granules coated with a microporous cellulose acetate butyrate 381-20 film to maintain a 1 M NaCl concentration within the drug compartment over a 16-hr period. This resulted in release of ∼75% of the initial diltiazem HC1 load with zero-order kinetics over a 14- to 16-hr period. The in vivo performance of these devices in beagle dogs was analyzed. The in vivo percentage diltiazem absorbed profiles were superimposable with the in vitro release profile. These results suggest that diltiazem release and absorption from the solubility modulated osmotic pump occur throughout the GI tract in a fashion predictable from in vitro dissolution data.
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McClelland, G.A., Sutton, S.C., Engle, K. et al. The Solubility-Modulated Osmotic Pump: In Vitro/in Vivo Release of Diltiazem Hydrochloride. Pharm Res 8, 88–92 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015890525495
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