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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 30.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Pharm. 2015 Nov 10;496(2):676–688. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2015.11.002

Table 4.

Summary of in vitro release of octreotide in PBS buffer at 37°C.

MPs polymer Total Octreotide released (%) Native octreotide released (%) aAcylated octreotide released (%) Burst release (%) bAcylated octreotide released (%) Release duration
TB 97±6.9 88±6.4 10±0.6 8.4±0.8 13±0.4% 105 Days
PBA 87±12 47±7.9 46±5.1 7.1±2.3 53±3.0% 330 Days
PBB 53±3.2 9.0±0.3 49±3.0 1.4±0.3 92±0.5% 330 Days

Data represented as mean ± SD, n=4.

Burst release is total octreotide (%) released at 24h.

a

calculated with respect to %EE.

b

Calculated with respect to total octreotide released.