The role of functional excipients in solid oral dosage forms to overcome poor drug dissolution and bioavailability

J Van der Merwe, J Steenekamp, D Steyn, J Hamman - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Many active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) exhibit poor solubility and low dissolution
rates in aqueous environments such as the luminal fluids of the gastrointestinal tract. The …

Nanoconjugation and encapsulation strategies for improving drug delivery and therapeutic efficacy of poorly water-soluble drugs

TTD Tran, PHL Tran - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nanoconjugations have been demonstrated to be a dominant strategy for drug delivery and
biomedical applications. In this review, we intend to describe several strategies for drug …

Controlled release systems containing solid dispersions: strategies and mechanisms

PHL Tran, TTD Tran, JB Park, BJ Lee - Pharmaceutical research, 2011 - Springer
In addition to a number of highly soluble drugs, most new chemical entities under
development are poorly water-soluble drugs generally characterized by an insufficient …

Molecular interactions in solid dispersions of poorly water-soluble drugs

TTD Tran, PHL Tran - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Physicochemical characterization is a crucial step for the successful development of solid
dispersions, including the determination of drug crystallinity and molecular interactions …

Formulation of aripiprazole-loaded pH-modulated solid dispersions via hot-melt extrusion technology: In vitro and in vivo studies

H McFall, S Sarabu, V Shankar, S Bandari… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to formulate aripiprazole (ARI)-loaded pH-modulated solid
dispersions (SD) to enhance solubility, dissolution, and bioavailability via hot-melt extrusion …

Dosage form designs for the controlled drug release of solid dispersions

PHL Tran, TTD Tran - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2020 - Elsevier
Although solid dispersions have been reported as an efficient drug delivery system, the
design of specific dosage forms for pharmaceutical therapy is necessary to improve the …

Mechanism and improved dissolution of glycyrrhetinic acid solid dispersion by alkalizers

L Dong, Y Mai, Q Liu, W Zhang, J Yang - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study was to increase the dissolution of glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) by
preparing ternary solid dispersion (TSD) systems containing alkalizers, and to explore the …

Dissolution-modulating mechanism of pH modifiers in solid dispersion containing weakly acidic or basic drugs with poor water solubility

PHL Tran, TTD Tran, KH Lee, DJ Kim… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Importance of the field: Although the solid dispersion method has been known to increase
the dissolution rate of poorly water-soluble drugs by dispersing them in hydrophilic carriers …

The roles of acidifiers in solid dispersions and physical mixtures

TTD Tran, PHL Tran, HG Choi, HK Han… - International journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
The roles of acidifiers in polyvinylpyrrolidone-based solid dispersions and physical mixtures
were originally investigated on dissolution rate of drug, acidifier release, structural …

Amorphous isradipine nanosuspension by the sonoprecipitation method

TTD Tran, PHL Tran, MNU Nguyen, KTM Tran… - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The aims of this study are to increase and explain the mechanism of dissolution
enhancement of isradipine using the sonoprecipitation method for stable nanosuspensions …