Dual centrifugation – A new technique for nanomilling of poorly soluble drugs and formulation screening by an DoE-approach

Publication date: 15 September 2017 Source:International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Volume 530, Issues 1–2 Author(s): Martin Hagedorn, Ansgar Bögershausen, Matthias Rischer, Rolf Schubert, Ulrich Massing The development of nanosuspensions of poorly soluble APIs takes a lot of time and high amount of active material is needed. In this publication the use of dual centrifugation (DC) for an effective and rapid API-nanomilling is described for the first time. DC differs from normal centrifugation by an additional rotation of the samples during centrifugation, resulting in a very fast and powerful movement of the samples inside the vials, which − in combination with milling beads − result in effective milling. DC-nanomilling was compared to conventional wet ball milling and results in same or even smaller particle sizes. Also drug concentrations up to 40% can be processed. The process is fast (typical 90min) and the temperature can be controlled. DC-nanomilling appears to be very gentle, experiments showed no change of the crystal structure during milling. Since batch sizes are very small (100–1000mg) and since 40 sample vials can be processed in parallel, DC is ideal for the screening of suitable polymer/surfactant combinations. Fenofibrate was used to investigate DC-nanomilling for formulation screening by applying a DoE-approach. The presented data also show that the results of DC-nanomilling experiments are highly comparable to the results obtained by common agi...
Source: International Journal of Pharmaceutics - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research