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A review on micro beads: Formulation, technological aspects, and extraction

GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2024 8 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 45 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.
Shaik Khaja Moinuddin, Pradeep Kumar M, Sandeep Kumar G, Perugumi Ramya, Konda Sravya Sree, K. Kavya

Summary

This review covered the formulation, technological aspects, and extraction methods for microbead drug delivery systems, which are used to achieve targeted therapeutic drug concentrations in the body. The paper compared different types of unit dosage forms and discussed the advantages of microbeads for controlled drug release.

Any drug delivery system's purpose is to deliver a therapeutic amount of medicine to the appropriate place in the body while also achieving and maintaining the correct drug concentration. This could be accomplished by using numerous unit dosage forms such as microgranules/spheroids, pellets, microcapsules, and beads, which are divided into many separate units, referred to as subunits, each of which possesses certain desired features. The advantages of micro particle drug delivery systems over single unit dose form are well documented. One of the solutions that does not entail the use of harsh chemicals or elevated temperatures is the production of microbeads medication delivery systems. The traditional procedures require the use of ionotropic gelation methods, which include internal and external gelation methods, emulsion gelation methods, polyelectrolyte complexation methods, and so on. Because of the ease of preparation, the majority of work has been done on the preparation of microbeads using the ionotropic gelation process rather than alternative approaches.

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