An Overview on Recent Advances in Pharmaceutical Suspensions

Authors

  • Yogesh Sahu Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001
  • Arvind Singh Jadon Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India-474001
  • Prateek Jain Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001
  • Bhupendra Singh Thakur Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001
  • Basant Khare Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001
  • Anushree Jain Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22270/ijmspr.v7i1.54

Keywords:

Suspensions, suspending agents, flocculated, Stability

Abstract

The suspension is a biphasic liquid or semi-solid dosage form where the finely divided insoluble solid drug particles are homogeneously dispersed in a liquid or semi-solid medium. The solid drug particles act here as the dispersed phase and the liquid or the semi-solid as the dispersion medium. The particle diameter in a suspension is usually greater than 0.5 µm. However, it is difficult and also impractical to impose a sharp boundary between the suspensions and the dispersions having finer particles. Suspensions are an important class of pharmaceutical dosage forms. The advantages of suspension dosage forms include effective dispensing of hydrophobic drugs; avoidance of the use of cosolvents; masking of unpleasant taste of certain ingredients; offering resistance to degradation of drugs due to hydrolysis, oxidation or microbial activity; easy swallowing for young or elderly patients; and efficient intramuscular depot therapy. In addition, when compared to solution dosage forms, relatively higher concentration of drugs can be incorporated into suspension products. The present review provides an overview of various aspects of suspensions such as classification of suspensions, theories of suspensions, various suspending agents, formulations aspects of suspensions, stability of suspensions and recent research work that is being carried on suspensions.

Keywords: Suspensions, suspending agents, flocculated, Stability.

Author Biographies

Yogesh Sahu, Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

Arvind Singh Jadon, Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India-474001

Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India-474001

Prateek Jain, Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

Bhupendra Singh Thakur, Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

Basant Khare, Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

Anushree Jain, Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

Adina College of Pharmacy, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India-470001

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Published

15-03-2021

How to Cite

Sahu, Y. ., Jadon, A. S. ., Jain, P. ., Thakur, B. S. ., Khare, B. ., & Jain, A. (2021). An Overview on Recent Advances in Pharmaceutical Suspensions. International Journal of Medical Sciences and Pharma Research, 7(1), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.22270/ijmspr.v7i1.54

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2021): Volume 7, Issue 1, Jan-March 2021

Section

Review Article

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