Mimicking the Impact of Infant Tongue Peristalsis on Behavior of Solid Oral Dosage Forms Administered During Breastfeeding

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• 作者：Rebekah L. Scheuerle¹ ; ^{rebekah.scheuerle@gmail.com} ; Richard A. Kendall² ; Catherine Tuleu² ; Nigel K.H. Slater¹ ; Stephen E. Gerrard¹
• 关键词：in vitro models ; oral drug delivery ; pediatric ; physical characterization ; drug delivery systems
• 刊名：Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：106
• 期：1
• 页码：193-199
• 全文大小：1001 K
• 卷排序：106

文摘

An in vitro simulation system was developed to study the effect of an infant's peristaltic tongue motion during breastfeeding on oral rapidly disintegrating tablets in the mouth, for use in rapid product candidate screening. These tablets are being designed for use inside a modified nipple shield worn by a mother during breastfeeding, a proposed novel platform technology to administer drugs and nutrients to breastfeeding infants. In this study, the release of a model compound, sulforhodamine B, from tablet formulations was studied under physiologically relevant forces induced by compression and rotation of a tongue mimic. The release profiles of the sulforhodamine B in flowing deionized water were found to be statistically different using 2-way ANOVA with matching, when tongue mimic rotation was introduced for 2 compression levels representing 2 tongue strengths (p = 0.0013 and p < 0.0001 for the lower and higher compression settings, respectively). Compression level was found to be a significant factor for increasing model compound release at rotational rates representing nonnutritive breastfeeding (p = 0.0162). This novel apparatus is the first to simulate the motion and pressures applied by the tongue and could be used in future infant oral product development.