A Review on Drug Category Suitable for Monolithic Osmotic Tablet Gawai Mamata N.1,*, Aher Smita S.2, Saudagar Ravindra B.3 1Department of Quality Assurance Techniques, R. G. Sapkal College of Pharmacy, Anjaneri, Nashik-422213, Maharashtra, India 2Department of Analytical Chemistry, R. G. Sapkal College of Pharmacy, Anjaneri, Nashik-422213, Maharashtra, India 3Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, R. G. Sapkal College of Pharmacy, Anjaneri, Nashik-422213, Maharashtra, India *Corresponding Author E-mail: vchudiwal@wockhardt.com; sadhanashahi@yahoo.com
Online published on 9 March, 2016. Abstract Conventional drug delivery systems have little control over their drug release and almost no control over the effective concentration at the target site. This kind of dosing pattern may result in constantly changing, unpredictable plasma concentrations. Drugs can be delivered in a controlled pattern over a long period of time by the process of osmosis. Osmotic devices are the most promising strategy based systems for controlled drug delivery. They are the most reliable controlled drug delivery systems and could be employed as oral drug delivery systems. The present review is concerned with the study of drug release systems which are tablets coated with walls of controlled porosity. When these systems are exposed to water, low levels of water soluble additive is leached from polymeric material i.e. semi permeable membrane and drug releases in a controlled manner over an extended period of time. Drug delivery from this system is not influenced by the different physiological factors within the gut lumen and the release characteristics can be predicted easily from the known properties of the drug and the dosage form. In this paper, various types of osmotic ally controlled drug delivery systems and the basic components of controlled porosity osmotic pump tablets have been discussed briefly. Top Keywords Osmosis, osmotic pressure, osmogen, semi permeable membrane. Top |