Enhanced gastric residence time of acyclovir by floating raft formulation using box-behnken design

This research paper reports enhancing Acyclovir's gastric residence time by implementing a raft-forming drug delivery system. Because acyclovir is a narrow absorption window drug, it has a poor bioavailability of 10–20 % and a short half-life (t1/2) of 2.5 h. The guar gum and GMS-based floating...

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Main Authors: Rajalakshmi Munusamy, Sangeetha Shanmugasundharam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-01-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024003323