Table 4. Comparision of various release characteristics of anhydrous theophylline from different microsphere formulations, physical mixture and teophylline SR® tablet.
Formulation | aQ2 | bQ8 |
ct 50% (h) |
dDE |
Similarity factor |
F1 | 63.3±3.6 | 100.19±0.16 | 0.75 | 89.21 | 27.29 |
F2 | 65.3±0.3 | 99.11±0.19 | 0.5 | 95.08 | 20.07 |
F3 | 54.9±0.2 | 92.64±1.41 | 0.5 | 89.47 | 22.95 |
F4 | 50.6±0.5 | 94.52±0.23 | 2 | 88.39 | 24.63 |
f | 48.5±3.2 | 92.80±1.85 | 2 | 91.28 | 27.32 |
PM | 64.8±1.4 | 102.20±1.54 | 0.5 | 96.36 | 21.63 |
Theophylline SR® |
12.8±1.5 | 80.86±5.74 | 5 | 73.94 | 100 |