Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2008
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 4

Floating drug delivery systems to increase gastric retention of drugs: A Review

  • Author:
  • AV Mayavanshi, SS Gajjar
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 345 to 348

AR College of Pharmacy and GH Patel Institute of Pharmacy, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, Gujarat-388 120

*Corresponding Author E-mail: archana_surati@yahoo.com

Abstract

Gastric emptying is a complex process and makes in vivo performance of the drug delivery systems uncertain. In order to avoid this variability, efforts have been made to increase the retention time of the drug-delivery systems for more than 12 hours. The floating or hydrodynamically controlled drug delivery systems are useful in such application. The present review addresses briefly about the floating drug delivery systems.

Keywords

Floating drug delivery systems, its classification and application