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. 2018 Oct 18;13:6585–6602. doi: 10.2147/IJN.S178819

Table 3.

Kinetic analysis of drug-release data during burst-release phase

Formula code Correlation coefficient (r2) Release order Korsmeyer Main release mechanism
Zero-order First-order Higuchi model n r2
Glc
PM 1:1 0.9515 0.9222 0.8711 Zero 1.93 0.9674 Supercase II
PM 1:2 0.9541 0.9914 0.9907 First 1.47 0.9176 Supercase II
PM 1:4 0.9929 0.9865 0.9661 Zero 1.39 0.9914 Supercase II
PM 1:6 0.9991 0.9908 0.9838 Zero 1.69 0.9175 Supercase II
PM 1:8 0.9892 0.9866 0.9651 Zero 1.42 0.981 Supercase II
PM 1:10 0.9826 0.9944 0.9823 First 1.4 0.9635 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:1 0.8949 0.9447 0.924 First 2.03 0.918 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:2 0.9207 0.9759 0.9596 First 1.79 0.9102 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:4 0.8809 0.9702 0.9403 First 1.17 0.9223 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:6 0.9029 0.9892 0.9549 First 1.33 0.9212 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:8 0.8877 0.9929 0.9471 First 1.44 0.899 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:10 0.8362 0.988 0.9125 First 1.4 0.8717 Supercase II
TPGS Supercase II
PM 1:1 0.8805 0.9142 0.914 First 2.52 0.9182 Supercase II
PM 1:2 0.9053 0.9445 0.9322 First 1.97 0.9492 Supercase II
PM 1:4 0.9121 0.949 0.9408 First 1.86 0.9456 Supercase II
PM 1:6 0.9271 0.9683 0.942 First 1.84 0.9622 Supercase II
PM 1:8 0.9444 0.9803 0.9622 First 1.8 0.935 Supercase II
PM 1:10 0.9471 0.9806 0.9498 First 1.67 0.9599 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:1 0.9764 0.9799 0.9599 First 2.38 0.9534 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:2 0.973 0.98 0.9607 First 1.8 0.9606 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:4 0.9687 0.9926 0.9839 First 1.49 0.9593 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:6 0.9665 0.9928 0.9876 First 1.6 0.9425 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:8 0.9106 0.9703 0.9671 First 1.08 0.9289 Supercase II
SNEDDS 1:10 0.9299 0.9781 0.9759 First 1.18 0.938 Supercase II

Abbreviations: n, diffusion exponent; Glc, gelucire 44/14; TPGS, d-α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1,000 succinate; PM, physical mixture; SNEDDS, self-nanoemulsifying drug-delivery system.