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Drug Delivery

Lecture 5
Robert S. Langer
Advances in Controlled Drug Release
Technology : An Overview

MIT Lecture notes. DDS Controlled Release


Usual case

toxic

ineffective
Sustained release
Controlled release – Ideal Case
Objectives of Controlled Release
• Provide defines drug release kinetics
• Avoid toxic systemic levels (local delivery)
→ target specific tissue
• Improve patient compliance by avoiding
repeated injections
• Protect drug from premature
breakdown/elimination → improve in vivo
bioavailability
DIFFUSION CONTROLLED
MATRIX

- Well defines release kinetics


- Can model diffusion release
rigorously

RESERVOIR - Non-degradable implants


- Diffusion of macromolecules
(Eg. Protein) usually too slow
to be effective
- Denger of “Dose Dumping” in
Reservoir type systems
CHEMICALLY CONTROLLED
BULK ERODING
- Can be injectable and
degradable
- Low danger of dose
dumping

- Often difficult to stop


therapy until erosion is
complete
- Release will vary with
time for bulk erosion
SOLVENT CONTROLLED

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