The purpose of writing this review on floating drug delivery systems (FDDS) was to compile
the recent literature with special focus on the principal mechanism of floatation to achieve …

Expandable gastroretentive dosage forms (GRDFs) have been designed for the past 3
decades. They were originally created for possible veterinary use, but later the design was …

The success of controlled oral drug deliveries is associated with some physiological
adversities like short gastric residence time and unpredictable gastric emptying time …

Controlled release (CR) dosage forms have been extensively used to improve therapy with
several important drugs. However, the development processes are faced with several …

Nano-scaled particles have been found to preferentially accumulate in inflamed regions.
Local delivery of anti-inflammatory drugs loaded in nanoparticles to the inflamed colonic site …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic joint
inflammation which ultimately leads to severe disability and premature mortality. It has a …

Floating beads were prepared from a sodium alginate solution containing CaCO3 or
NaHCO3 as gas-forming agents. The solution was dropped to 1% CaCl2 solution containing …

A controlled drug delivery system with prolonged residence time in the stomach is of
particular interest for drugs that i) are locally active in the stomach, ii) have an absorption …

Oral sustained release gastroretentive dosage forms offer many advantages for drugs
having absorption from upper gastrointestinal tract and improve the bioavailability of …

The bioavailability of drugs with an absorption window in the upper small intestine is
generally limited with conventional pharmaceutical dosage forms. The residence time of …