Multi-drug loaded gastric-floating microcapsules

• Main Author: Tan, Nicholas Chaoyang
• Other Authors: Loo Say Chye Joachim
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Biomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/56996
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Floating drug delivery system (FDDS) was introduced to overcome physiological difficulties, such as unpredictable gastric emptying process (GET) and short gastric residence times (GRT) by prolonging the GRT. However, studies had proven that most hydrophobic drugs achieved very low and incomplete rel...