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ReviewPharmaceutics2024

Assessment of In Vitro Release Testing Methods for Colloidal Drug Carriers: The Lack of Standardized Protocols.

Laura Gómez-Lázaro, Cristina Martín-Sabroso, Juan Aparicio-Blanco, Ana Isabel Torres-Suárez

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Laura Gómez-LázaroDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Food Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1256-376X
Cristina Martín-SabrosoDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Food Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0707-9810
Juan Aparicio-BlancoDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Food Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Ana Isabel Torres-SuárezDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Food Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2468-6177

Funding

Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation PID2019-105531RBI00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although colloidal carriers have been in the pipeline for nearly four decades, standardized methods for testing their drug-release properties remain to be established in pharmacopeias. The in vitro assessment of drug release from these colloidal carriers is one of the most important parameters in the development and quality control of drug-loaded nano- and microcarriers. This lack of standardized protocols occurs due to the difficulties encountered in separating the released drug from the encapsulated one. This review aims to compare the most frequent types of release testing methods (i.e., membrane diffusion techniques, sample and separate methods and in situ detection techniques) in terms of the advantages and disadvantages of each one and of the key parameters that influence drug release in each case.

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dialysis-based methodsdrug releasein situ detection methodsliposomesmicroparticlesnanoparticlessample and separate techniques

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PMID38258113
PMCPMC10819705

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