Formulation and evaluation of castor oil containing self-emulsifying pellets by using design of experiment

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Authors

Shubhangi Shekade¹ , Satish Shirolkar¹ , Sanjeevani Deshkar¹

1. Dr. DY Patil Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

Conference / event

25th Annual National Convention APTICON 2022, September 2022 (Mysuru, India)

Poster summary

The objective of the study was to examine the feasibility of extrusion/spheronization techniques for converting liquid castor oil into solid self-emulsifying pellets. A D-optimal mixture design was used for formulating self emulsifying pellets using castor oil, surfactant, cosurfactant, lactose, MCC, corn starch and HPMC by extrusion spheronization technique. The effect of composition of oil, surfactant and cosurfactant blend on dispersion time, resultant globule size and polydispersibility index was studied. Additionally, pellet flow properties, hardness, size distribution and disintegration time was also evaluated. The morphology of castor oil pellets was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Free flowing pellets were obtained with 30% of oil loading. SEM revealed sphericity and smooth surface of the oil loaded pellets. This developed system can serve as a carrier system for any activity as well as can also be used for delivery of castor oil.

Keywords

Solid self-emulsifying drug delivery system, Extrusion spheronisation, Dispersion time, Castor oil, Pellets

Research areas

Agriculture, Chemistry, Immunology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Nanoengineering

References

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Funding

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Supplemental files

1. DOI of article:10.5530/ijper.57.1s.9   Download

Additional information

Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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