Factors Influencing Drug Absorption Though Git PDF
Factors Influencing Drug Absorption Though Git PDF
Factors Influencing Drug Absorption Though Git PDF
A. Pharmaceutical factors:
1. Physicochemical properties of drug
a. Drug solubility and dissolution rate
b. Particle size and effective surface area
c. Polymorphism and amorphism
d. Pseudopolymorphism(hydrates or solvates)
e. Salt form of the drug
f. Lipophilicity of the drug
g. Drug stability
h. Stereochemical nature of the drug
2. Formulation factors
a. disintegration time
b. manufacturing variables
c. nature and type of dosage form
d. pharmaceutical ingredients (excepients)
e. product age and storage conditions
B. Patient related factors
a. age
b. gastric emptying time
c. intestinal transit time
d. gastrointestinal pH
e. diseased states
f. blood flow through the GIT
g. gastrointestinal contents
1. other drugs
2.food
3.fluids
4.other normal G.I contents
h. presystemic metabolism by
1. luminal enzymes
2. gut wall enzymes
3.bacterial enzymes
4. hepatic enzymes
a. Drug solubility and dissolution rate
disintegration
polymorphs
enantiotropic monotropic
polymorph polymorph
eg: sulphur eg:glyceryl stearates
40 % of all organic compounds – exist in various polymorphic
forms.
70% of barbiturates & 65% of sulphonamides exhibit
polymorphism.
Amorphous form:
These have greater aqueous solubility than the crystaline
forms because the energy required to transfer a molecule from
crystal lattice is greater than that required for non-crystalline
solid .
eg: amorphous form of novobiocin - 10 times more soluble
than crystalline form.
amorphous > metastable> stable
d.Hydrates or solvates
high aq solubility
1. Disintegration time:
Rapid disintegration is important to have a rapid absorption so lower
D.T is required.
Now D.T of tablet is directly proportional to – amount o f binder -
Compression force.
And one thing should be remembered that in vitro disintegration test
gives no means of a guarantee of drugs bioavailability because if the
disintegrated drug particles do not dissolve then absorption is not
possible.
2. Manufacturing variables: -
a) Method of granulation:
Wet granulation yields a tablet that dissolves faster than those made
by other granulating methods. But wet granulation has several
limitations like formation of crystal bridge or chemical degradation.
Other superior recent method named APOC (agglomerative
phase of communition) that involves grinding of drug till
spontaneous agglomeration and granules are prepared with
higher surface area. So tablet made up of this granules have
higher dissolution rate.
b) Compression force:
Higher compression force yields a tablet with greater hardness
and reduced wettability & hence have a long D.T. but on other
hand higher compression force cause crushing of drug particles
into smaller ones with higher effective surface area which in
decrease in D.T.
So effect of compression force should be thoroughly studied on
each formulation.
3. Nature and type of dosage form
Drug formulations are
designed to provide an
attractive, stable, and
convenient method to use
products. Conventional
dosage forms may be broadly
characterized in order of
decreasing dissolution rate as
solutions, solid solutions,
suspensions, capsules and
tablets, coated capsules and
tablets, and controlled release
formulations.
A. Solutions:
Aqueous solutions, syrups,
elixirs, and emulsions do
not present a dissolution
problem and generally
result in fast and often
complete absorption as
compared to solid dosage
forms. Due to their
generally good systemic
availability, solutions are
frequently used as
bioavailability standards
against which other dosage
forms are compared.
B.Solid solutions
The solid solution is a
formulation in which
drug is trapped as a solid
solution or
monomolecular
dispersion in a water-
soluble matrix. Although
the solid solution is an
attractive approach to
increase drug absorption,
only one drug,
griseofulvin, is currently
marketed in this form.
C.Suspensions:
A drug in a suspension is in solid
form, but is finely divided and has a
large surface area. Drug particles
can diffuse readily between the
stomach and small intestine so that
absorption is relatively insensitive
to stomach emptying rate.
Adjusting the dose to a patient’s
needs is easier with solutions and
suspensions than with solid dosage
forms. Liquid dosage forms,
therefore, have several practical
advantages besides simple
dissolution rate.
However, they also have some
disadvantages, including greater
bulk, difficulty in handling, and
perhaps reduced stability.
D. Capsules and tablets:
hydrolyzation
eg: sulphasalazine sulphapyridine &
(drug in ulcerative colitis) 5-aminsalicylic acid
Enzymes hydrolyse conjugates of drugs actively secreted via bile
such as glucoronides of digoxin and oral contraceptives
Hepatic enzymes:
several drugs undergo first pass hepatic metabolism, the highly
extracted ones being isoprenaline, propranolol, alprenolol,
pentoxyphylline, nitroglycerine, diltiazem, lidocaine, morphine
etc.
Altered GI motility:
Gastrointestinal diseases and infections:
Two of the intestinal disorders related with
malabsorption syndrome that influence drug availability
are celiac disease and Crohn’s disease.
Crohn’s disease that can alter absorption pattern are
altered gut wall microbial flora, decreased gut surface
area and intestinal transit rate.
GI infections like shigellosis, gastroenteritis, cholera
and food poisoning also result in malabsorption.
Gastrointestinal surgery:
Gastrectomy can result in drug dumping in the intestine,
osmotic diarrhea and reduced intestinal transit time.
Cardiovascular diseases:
Several changes associated with congestive cardiac failure
influence bioavailability of a drug.
Hepatic diseases:
Disorders such as hepatic cirrhosis influence bioavailability
mainly of drugs that undergo considerable first-pass hepatic
metabolism.
e.g. propranolol.
A number of contents can influence drug absorption as follows:
Food-drug interactions: Presence of food may either delay,
reduce, increase or may not affect drug absorption.
Delayed Decreased Increased Unaffected