Editor-in-Chief
Hatice Kübra Elçioğlu
Vice Editors
Levent Kabasakal
Esra Tatar
Online ISSN
2630-6344
Publisher
Marmara University
Frequency
Bimonthly (Six issues / year)
Abbreviation
J.Res.Pharm.
Former Name
Marmara Pharmaceutical Journal
Journal of Research in Pharmacy
2023 , Vol 27 , Issue 2
Employment of liquisolid approach in the development optimization and evaluation of an oral disintegrating tablet of aripiprazole
1Department of Pharmaceutics, Krupanidhi College of Pharmacy, Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bengaluru 560035, India
DOI :
10.29228/jrp.362
The major problems associated with the oral route of administration are low solubility, low permeability,
and hepatic degradation of drugs, leading to low bioavailability issues. Therefore, in this study, a biopharmaceutics
classification systems (BCS) class II drug aripiprazole was chosen to develop an oral disintegrating tablet using liquisolid
technology to enhance the solubility and dissolution rate of the drug. Liquisolid compact of aripiprazole was prepared
using polyethylene glycol (PEG 400) as a nonvolatile solvent, microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) as a carrier, and Aerosil
200 as a coating material. The formulations were optimized via the 23-factorial design. The optimum formulation was
further converted to oral disintegrating tablets with the help of the super disintegrant, cross povidone, and the produced
tablets were evaluated. The water solubility of aripiprazole was observed to have increased from 4.5μg/ml to 0.13mg/ml
in the liquisolid form and angle of repose was found to be reasonably passable. As was observed from the experimental
design, the solvent, solvent: carrier, and carrier were seen to have a significant influence on the selected responses. The
X-ray diffraction pattern of the optimized formula indicated a reduction in the peak number and the peak intensities
compared to the pure drug. The tablets prepared of liquisolid compacts displayed good tableting properties. The
disintegration time was found to be 40 seconds. The stability studies indicated no apparent changes in the properties
after a storage period of 3 months. The liquisolid compacts are an inexpensive method of preparing oral disintegrating
tablets of Aripiprazole with an assurance of suitable dissolution property of the drug.
Keywords :
Aripiprazole; liquisolid compacts; oral disintegrating tablets; solubility; bioavailability