Nicotinic acid (NA) as lipid lowering agent drug has not become a first-line treatment due to the strong side effect called flushing occurs when given in immediate release dosage form. The tablets were prepared by wet granulation method using HPMC K-15M, polymer as retardant and the prepared tablets of NA will remain intact up to 2 hrs in pH 1.2 due to Eudragit L 100-55 and its release is not only initiated but tact fully retarded up to 12 hrs and were found to be superior in physical properties,dissolution characteristics, and drug content uniformity. The drug release from the matrix tablet...

Colorectal cancer is second leading cause of deaths in the United States. Various approaches available for The poor site specificity of pH dependent systems, because of large variation in the pH of gastrointestinal tract, was well established. The timed-release systems release their load after a predetermined period of administration. These are designed to resist the release of the drug in stomach and small intestine and release of the drug takes place in colon. Methotrexate (MTX) is a used in the treatment of colon cancer and now a days rheumatic disease. MTX is a folate antimetabolite. MTX...

Oral drug delivery is the most widely utilized route of administration among the entire route that has been explored for the systemic delivery of drug via various pharmaceutical products of different dosage form. The conventional tablet seems to be most popular because of its ease of transportation and low manufacturing cost as compare to others but poor patient compliance with whom experienced swallowing difficulties. In response to this mouth dissolving drug delivery system (MDDs) were developed as an alternative to tablet, capsule and syrup. A variety of MDDs like Mouth dissolving tablets...