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Presentation on Penetration
                           enhancers




Dr. Sanjula Baboota                 Abdul Muheem
Deptt of pharmaceutics              M.Pharma(pharmaceutics)
JAMIA HAMDARD                       F/O PHARMACY
                                    JAMIA HAMDARD
Introduction
• Permeation of drugs throughout epithelial
  barriers could be promoted by ‘penetration
  enhencers’capable     of    decreasing   barrier
  properties of the mucosa by different
  mechanisms.
• Enhancement is founded on different techniques
  that are usually divided in chemical or physical
  methods.
Chemical methods-
chemical enhancers are through to improve
absorption without irritation or damage the
mucosa by-
• Alteration the rheology of the mucus layer.
• Transiently altering the lipid bilayer membrane.
• Increasing cell membrane fluidity.
• Extracting structural lipids.
• Altering cellular proteins.
• Increasing the thermodynamics activity of          the
  permeate.
• Overcoming the enzymatic barrier.

-chemical enhancers could be added to a formulation,
alone or in combination ;their efficacy depends on the
physiochemical properties of both the drug & vehicle.
-various chelators ,surfactants, bile salts &fatty acids,
have been used as permeation enhancers ;chitosan & its
derivatives have been used as enhancers of small polar
moiety & hydrophobic large molecules.
 recently lysalbinic acid ,a product of egg albumin
,hydrolysis ,has been successfully used as enhancers for
protein & peptides.
Enzymatic drug inactivation is neither rapid nor extensive
as the enzymatic activity of buccal mucosa is relatively
low .
Nevertheless ,enzymes of the oral cavity could degrades
some peptide & protein drugs
Co- administration of enzyme inhibitors such as aprotinin
,could be effective as they reduce the activity of
proteolytic enzymes.
S.No   Penetration Enhancers     S.No   Penetration Enhancers

1      Aprotinin                 8      Phosphotidyl choline

2      Azone                     9      Polyoxyethylene

3      Lauric acids              10     Sod. Glycocholate

4      Glycol                    11     Sod. Taurocholate

5      Cyclodextrin              12     Sod.glycodeoxycholate

6      Cetyltrimethyl ammonium   13     Sod.EDTA
       bromide
7      Polysrbate 80             14     Sod.taurodeoxycholine
S.N. Drug         Enhancers                 results                  Methods


1    Insulin      Sod.glycocholate          F=0.5%                   Dog in-vivo


2    Glucose      SLS, polysorbate 80       SLS increased the        Rat in-vivo
                                            permeability,
                                            polysorbate 80 less
                                            effective
3    Insulin      5% sod. Glycocholate      Increased F buccal       Rat in vivo
                                            from 0.7% -26%

4    insulin      5% laureth-9,aprotinin,   Increased F from 0.7-    Rat in vivo
                  sod.salicylate            3.6% ,laureth-9 ,other
                                            had no effect
5    Calcitonin   Various bile salts        Increased                Rat in vivo
                                            pharmacologic effect,
                                            increased stability
6    Interferon   1-4% sod.taurocholate     Increased F from         Rat in vivo
                  ,5% cyclodextrin          0.014% to 0.25% with
                                            sod.taurocholate,
                                            other have less effect
Penetration enhencers