The aim of present research work is to develop single pulse pulsatile release tablets that release Lornoxicam instantly after the lag time of about 5 hour which can be used for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis where symptoms are at their prime in the morning hours. Such a pulsatile release tablet of Lornoxicam taken at bed time and release the drug in early morning, thus enhance patient compliance. From various approaches erodible compression coating system is selected for the formulation of pulsatile release tablets, in which outer coating containing mixture of hydrophilic polymer (sodium...

Levocetrizine hydrochloride is an oral antihistamine and antiallergic agent, which blocking histamine receptors. It does not prevent the actual release of histamine from mast cells, but prevents it binding to its receptors. This in turn prevents the release of other allergy chemicals and increased blood supply to the area, and provides relief from the typical symptoms of hey fever and rhinitus allergic condition. The dose of Levocetrizine hydrochloride ranges from 5 to 10 mg twice in a day and it undergoes extensive first pass metabolism. Hence it has only 66% bioavailability. The half life...

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...