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Pharmaceutical Technology of Modified Drug Release

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 14 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 14 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OTF-MGT-T
  • 1 kredit
  • Biotechnology BSc
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

OTM-PMBT-T finished

Course headcount limitations

min. 1 – max. 50

Topic

Students can get acquainted in details with modified drug delivery technologies and special industrial drug manufacture (3D printing, manufacture of multi-layer tablets and osmotic preparations) and the importance of pharmaceutical excipients. Student will learn special manufacturing technologies through the demonstration of dosage forms already available in the pharmaceutical therapy.

Lectures

  • 1. Theory of modified drug release - Pál Szilárd
  • 2. Importance of excipients, patents of excipient-compositions - Kása Péter
  • 3. Immediate drug-release (OraSolv, DuraSolv, Zydis technology) - Pál Szilárd
  • 4. Sustained drug-release: Multiparticulate dosage forms I. (sustained release pellets in practice) - Pál Szilárd
  • 5. Multiparticulate dosage forms II. (MUPS technology) - Pál Szilárd
  • 6. Matrix systems I. (hydrophilic matrices) - Pál Szilárd
  • 7. Matrix systems II. (hydrophobic matrices) - Pál Szilárd
  • 8. Osmotic technology (EOP, OROS, L-OROS, GITS) - Pál Szilárd
  • 9. Geometry based drug-release (Geomatrix, Procise, Smartrix technology) - Kása Péter
  • 10. Chronotherapeutic systems (Geoclock technology) - Pál Szilárd
  • 11. 3D printing in the field of modified drug delivery - Pál Szilárd
  • 12. Site specific drug release (gastroretentive systems, colon-specific drug delivery) - Pál Szilárd
  • 13. Halving of tablets, technology of halving-friendly tablets, concept of ,,ghost" tablets - Kása Péter
  • 14. End-year test - Pál Szilárd

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

James Swarbrick: Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology, Informa Healthcare, 2011

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

-

Mid-term exams

During the end semester test 60 % should be reached.

Making up for missed classes

According to the Code of Studies and Examinations

Exam topics/questions

http://gytk.pte.hu

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Kása Péter
  • Pál Szilárd
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