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Development of Bilayer Tablet Containing Saxagliptin Immediate Release and Metformin Sustained Release Using Quality by Design Approach

Author(s): Amit Kaushal, Sandeep Arora, Neelam Sharma and Sukhbir Singh*

Volume 16, Issue 2, 2021

Published on: 15 March, 2021

Page: [184 - 203] Pages: 20

DOI: 10.2174/1574885516666210315100848

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Abstract

Objective: Adequate glycemic control in diabetes patients requires oral combination therapy. Saxagliptin is a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor having fewer adverse effects, and metformin is the first-line medicine for diabetes treatment. The aim of this research work is to develop a bilayer tablet of saxagliptin and metformin in fixed-dose combination (FDC) using quality by design (QbD) to acquire the immediate release of saxagliptin and sustained release of metformin from bilayer tablet to ultimately achieve superior patient compliance.

Methods: The development of the bilayer tablet was done in four stages using QbD. In the first step, quality target product profile (QTPP) of bilayer tablet was defined, and critical quality attributes (CQAs) were identified by risk estimation matrix and taguchi design; an immediate release saxagliptin layer was optimized in the second step, optimization of sustained-release metformin layer was carried out in the third step, and in the final step, bilayer tablet was prepared and characterized. The effect of independent parameters, i.e., magnesium stearate level (X1), kneading time (X2) and lubrication time (X3) on Carr’s Index (Y1), percentage relative standard deviation of content uniformity (Y2) and drug release at 30 minutes (Y3), were estimated for optimization of immediate release saxagliptin layer using Box-Behnken design (BBD). The effect of independent parameters, i.e., hydroxypropyl methylcellulose level (X4), compritol level (X5) and magnesium stearate level (X6) on Carr’s Index (Y4), drug release at 2 h (Y5), drug release at 5 h (Y6) and drug release at 10 h (Y7) were estimated for optimization of sustained-release metformin layer using BBD.

Results: The optimized composition of immediate release saxagliptin layer estimated using numerical optimization by Design expert was 0.88% (X1), 15 minutes (X2) and 3.85 minutes (X3) with predicted variables, i.e., 10.59% (Y1), 3.16% (Y2) and 85% (Y3). The optimized composition of sustained- release saxagliptin layer predicted through numerical optimization was 30% (X4), 3.36% (X5) and 0.9% (X6) having 10.89% (Y4), 43.44% (Y5), 60% (Y6) and 85.14% (Y7). In-vitro dissolution study of bilayer tablet showed immediate release of Saxagliptin (approximately 85% in 30 minutes) and sustained release of metformin illustrating 43.21±1.21, 60.86±2.96 and 86.26±1.38% drug release at 2, 5 and 10 h, respectively. The release exponent for the Korsmeyer-Peppas model for Saxagliptin and metformin was 0.237 (<0.45) and 1.536 (n>0.85), indicating Fickian and super case II transport drug release behavior, respectively.

Conclusion: By QbD approach, bilayer tablet containing saxagliptin and metformin was successfully developed, and influence of various formulation parameters on CQAs of drug products was understood with fewer experiments. This leads to the conclusion that cost can be reduced using QbD in the development of FDC for improving patient compliance.

Keywords: Bilayer, box-behnken design, critical quality attributes, quality by design, quality target product profile, saxagliptin, taguchi design.

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