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Release profile of ibuprofen in β-cyclodextrin complexes from two different solid dosage forms
The objective of this work was to develop solid dosage forms using powders containing inclusion complexes (ibuprofen with β-cyclodextrin) which were used to produce tablets (direct compression without additional excipients) and pellets (extrusion/spheronization) from wet mass containing 40% (w/w) of microcrystalline cellulose. The pellets also demonstrated that during preparation of the wet mass, the inclusion process occurred in a same yield that when pre-complexation was used. The particles characteristics were evaluated after being obtained through different complexation methods. The results showed that the tensile strength and profile dissolution were as expected for both dosage forms. Tablets containing inclusion complexes showed higher solubility when compared with a reference formulation and with two commercial formulations. The ibuprofen released from the two pellets formulations didn’t show relevant differences between them. The drug released was analyzed considering different dissolution parameters. The advantages of these new methodologies can be summarized as: (a) tablets were produced at a lower cost for the total process; and (b) in the pellet´s preparation there was no need of the previous complexation method resulting in a decrease in time and energy required
Triangle-roundedness in matroids
A matroid is said to be triangle-rounded in a class of matroids
if each -connected matroid with a triangle
and an -minor has an -minor with as triangle. Reid gave a result
useful to identify such matroids as stated next: suppose that is a binary
-connected matroid with a -connected minor , is a triangle of
and ; then has a -connected minor with an
-minor such that is a triangle of and . We
strengthen this result by dropping the condition that such element exists
and proving that there is a -connected minor of with an -minor
such that is a triangle of and . This
result is extended to the non-binary case and, as an application, we prove that
is triangle-rounded in the class of the regular matroids
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