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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Drug Deliv. 2014;11(2):279–286. doi: 10.2174/1567201811666140118224616

Table 2.

Apparent rate constants of drug release from the formulations.

Formulation # First order rate constant (h−1) a, regression analysis R2
1 0.0029±0.0002, 0.941
2 0.0094±0.0003, 0.994
3 0.0058±0.0003, 0.970
4 0.0037±0.0003, 0.936
5 0.017±0.001, 0.984
6 0.0029±0.0003, 0.922
7 0.0044±0.0007, 0.893
8 0.0034±0.0002, 0.978
PBS (control) 0.079±0.008, 0.954
a

Rate constant, k, calculated from the slope of ln(Ct/C0) vs. t; mean ± standard error.