Direct Visualization of Drug–Polymer Phase Separation in Ritonavir–Copovidone Amorphous Solid Dispersions Using in situ Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Imaging of Thin Films
Abstract
Amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) are new formulations currently being used in pharmaceutical industry. The ASDs, in which amorphous drug and polymeric excipients are intimately mixed at a molecular level, exhibit dramatically enhanced solubility and dissolution characteristics relative to their crystalline drug counterparts. In the process of achieving an ever-increasing drug loading (DL), it is noticed however, that the drug release profile deteriorates significantly beyond a certain DL. As an example, a ritonavir-copovidone ASD achieves continuous and full drug release when DL ≤ 25 wt%. The release drops at 30 wt% and when DL > 30 wt% there is virtually no drug release, behaving like a pure amorphous drug. In this communication, the dissolution behavior of ASD thin films has been investigated by in situ synchrotron X-ray fluorescence (XRF) imaging to elucidate the mechanism for the unique change in extent of drug release as a function of DL. It is found that the drug release profile correlates well with the amorphous-amorphous phase separation (AAPS) onset. At a lower drug loading (up to 20 wt%), it takes more than 12 hours for AAPS to happen while in sharp contrast, it only needs less than 10 minutes for DL > 30 wt%. Duringmore »
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- AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1579933
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Molecular Pharmaceutics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 16; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1543-8384
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 38 RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; phase separation; amorphous solid dispersion; release profile; synchrotron; X-ray fluorescence imaging
Citation Formats
Shi, Chenyang, Li, Luxi, Zhang, Geoff G. Z., and Borchardt, Thomas B. Direct Visualization of Drug–Polymer Phase Separation in Ritonavir–Copovidone Amorphous Solid Dispersions Using in situ Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Imaging of Thin Films. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00651.
Shi, Chenyang, Li, Luxi, Zhang, Geoff G. Z., & Borchardt, Thomas B. Direct Visualization of Drug–Polymer Phase Separation in Ritonavir–Copovidone Amorphous Solid Dispersions Using in situ Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Imaging of Thin Films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00651
Shi, Chenyang, Li, Luxi, Zhang, Geoff G. Z., and Borchardt, Thomas B. Wed .
"Direct Visualization of Drug–Polymer Phase Separation in Ritonavir–Copovidone Amorphous Solid Dispersions Using in situ Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Imaging of Thin Films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00651. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1579933.
@article{osti_1579933,
title = {Direct Visualization of Drug–Polymer Phase Separation in Ritonavir–Copovidone Amorphous Solid Dispersions Using in situ Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Imaging of Thin Films},
author = {Shi, Chenyang and Li, Luxi and Zhang, Geoff G. Z. and Borchardt, Thomas B.},
abstractNote = {Amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) are new formulations currently being used in pharmaceutical industry. The ASDs, in which amorphous drug and polymeric excipients are intimately mixed at a molecular level, exhibit dramatically enhanced solubility and dissolution characteristics relative to their crystalline drug counterparts. In the process of achieving an ever-increasing drug loading (DL), it is noticed however, that the drug release profile deteriorates significantly beyond a certain DL. As an example, a ritonavir-copovidone ASD achieves continuous and full drug release when DL ≤ 25 wt%. The release drops at 30 wt% and when DL > 30 wt% there is virtually no drug release, behaving like a pure amorphous drug. In this communication, the dissolution behavior of ASD thin films has been investigated by in situ synchrotron X-ray fluorescence (XRF) imaging to elucidate the mechanism for the unique change in extent of drug release as a function of DL. It is found that the drug release profile correlates well with the amorphous-amorphous phase separation (AAPS) onset. At a lower drug loading (up to 20 wt%), it takes more than 12 hours for AAPS to happen while in sharp contrast, it only needs less than 10 minutes for DL > 30 wt%. During AAPS amorphous drug accumulates on the surface of the film which prevents further dissolution from the interior of the ASD. The current study provides a mechanistic understanding of the confounding drug release profile of ASDs as a function of DL, and opens the door for studying drug-excipient (e.g. polymer, surfactant) interactions via XRF imaging in the future.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00651},
journal = {Molecular Pharmaceutics},
number = 11,
volume = 16,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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