Hot Melt Extrusion and Spray Drying of Co-amorphous Indomethacin-Arginine With Polymers

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• 作者：Elisabeth Lenz¹ ; Korbinian Lö ; bmann² ; Thomas Rades² ; Klaus Knop¹ ; Peter Kleinebudde¹ ; ^{Kleinebudde@hhu.de}
• 关键词：co-amorphous ; amino acid ; polymer ; hot melt extrusion ; spray drying ; physical stability ; dissolution
• 刊名：Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：106
• 期：1
• 页码：302-312
• 全文大小：1676 K
• 卷排序：106

文摘

Co-amorphous drug-amino acid systems have gained growing interest as an alternative to common amorphous formulations which contain polymers as stabilizers. Several preparation methods have recently been investigated, including vibrational ball milling on a laboratory scale or spray drying in a larger scale. In this study, the feasibility of hot melt extrusion for continuous manufacturing of co-amorphous drug-amino acid formulations was examined, challenging the fact that amino acids melt with degradation at high temperatures. Furthermore, the need for an addition of a polymer in this process was evaluated. After a polymer screening via the solvent evaporation method, co-amorphous indomethacin-arginine was prepared by a melting-solvent extrusion process without and with copovidone. The obtained products were characterized with respect to their solid-state properties, non-sink dissolution behavior, and stability. Results were compared to those of spray-dried formulations with the same compositions and to spray-dried indomethacin-copovidone. Overall, stable co-amorphous systems could be prepared by extrusion without or with copovidone, which exhibited comparable molecular interaction properties to the respective spray-dried products, while phase separation was detected by differential scanning calorimetry in several cases. The formulations containing indomethacin in combination with arginine and copovidone showed enhanced dissolution behavior over the formulations with only copovidone or arginine.