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ReviewPharmaceutics2018

Co-Amorphous Solid Dispersions for Solubility and Absorption Improvement of Drugs: Composition, Preparation, Characterization and Formulations for Oral Delivery.

Anna Karagianni, Kyriakos Kachrimanis, Ioannis Nikolakakis

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anna KaragianniDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. karagiak@pharm.auth.gr.ORCID 0000-0002-0831-1247
Kyriakos KachrimanisDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. kgk@pharm.auth.gr.
Ioannis NikolakakisDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. yannikos@pharm.auth.gr.ORCID 0000-0003-1690-1885

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The amorphous solid state offers an improved apparent solubility and dissolution rate. However, due to thermodynamic instability and recrystallization tendencies during processing, storage and dissolution, their potential application is limited. For this reason, the production of amorphous drugs with adequate stability remains a major challenge and formulation strategies based on solid molecular dispersions are being exploited. Co-amorphous systems are a new formulation approach where the amorphous drug is stabilized through strong intermolecular interactions by a low molecular co-former. This review covers several topics applicable to co-amorphous drug delivery systems. In particular, it describes recent advances in the co-amorphous composition, preparation and solid-state characterization, as well as improvements of dissolution performance and absorption are detailed. Examples of drug-drug, drug-carboxylic acid and drug-amino acid co-amorphous dispersions interacting via hydrogen bonding, π-π interactions and ionic forces, are presented together with corresponding final dosage forms.

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absorptionco-amorphous solid dispersionsdissolutiondrug-amino acidsdrug-carboxylic acidsdrug-drug co-amorphous

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PMID30029516
PMCPMC6161132

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