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. 2020 Feb 24;10(3):136. doi: 10.1007/s13205-020-2132-7

Table 1.

Drug release kinetics profile of K. alvarezii extract-encapsulated PEGylated liposome

Model Parameter K. alvarezii extract from PEGylated liposome
pH 3.2 pH 5.4 pH 7.4
Zero order F = K0 × t K0 0.015 0.017 0.015
r2 Adjusted 0.9001 0.9285 0.8961
AIC 340.521 337.430 343.741
First order F = 100 × [1-Exp (-k1 × t)] K1 0.01 0.01 0.01
r2 Adjusted 0.9616 0.9692 0.9618
AIC 300.411 302.144 301.786
Higuchi model F = KH × t1/2 Kh 0.904 1.026 0.926
r2 Adjusted 0.8824 0.8878 0.8848
AIC 347.390 356.379 348.114
Korsmeyer-Peppas model F = kKP × tn kKP 0.1272 0.1078 0.140
r2 Adjusted 0.9363 0.9535 0.9356
n 0.742 0.778 0.733
AIC 323.637 321.364 325.669
Hixon-Crowell model F = 100 × [1-(1-kHC × t)3] kHC 0.001 0.001 0.001
r2 Adjusted 0.9554 0.9741 0.9555
AIC 306.618 294.757 308.127

Where, AIC akaike information criterion, F fraction of drug release in time t, K0 apparent rate constant of zero-order release constant, K1 first-order release constant, KH higuchi constant, kKP Korsmeyer–Peppas rate constant, kHC Hixon–Crowell constant, n diffusional exponent. And r2 squared correlation coefficient