Influencia do poli(etileno glicol) (PEG) no processo de microencapsulação da oxitetraciclina no sistema alginato/quitosana : modelamento "in vitro da liberação oral

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

Diffusion studies of oxytetracycline (OTC) entrapped in microbeads of calcium alginate, calcium alginate coacerved with chitosan (high, medium and low viscosity) and calcium alginate coacerved with chitosan low viscosity, covered with Poly (ethylene glycol) - PEG (2 000, 4 600 and 10 000) and alginate covered with EUORAGITI®, were carried out at 37 +/- 0.5 °C, in buffer solutions at pH 7.4 and pH 1.2, similar to the conditions of the gastric-intestinal system. The diffusion coefficient, or diffusivity (D), of OTC was calculated by equations provided by Crank for diffusion, which follows Fick s second law, considering the diffusion from the inner parts to the surface of the microbeads. The least square and the Newton Raphson methods were used to obtain the diffusion coefficients. The microbeads swelling in pH 7.4 and OTC diffusion is classically Fickian, suggesting that the OTC transport, in this case, is controlled by the exchange rates of free water and relaxation of calcium-alginate chains. In case of acid media, it was observed that the phenomenon did not follow Fick s law, due probably to the high solubility of the OTC in this environment and the presence of cracks formed during the drying process of the microbeads. It was possible to model the release rate of OTC in several types of microbeads

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tetracycline chitosan microencapsulação microencapsulation alginatos tetraciclina alginates quitosana

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