Drug release characteristics of dosage forms: a review

Area of drug delivery is vast, and various advances have been made in the medical field. Besides the versatility in the dosage forms, various orders for the drug release are known, which includes zero order, first order, Higuchi model, Hixon Crowell model and Korsmeyer Peppas model. In vitro dissolution is recognized as an important element in the development of drug. The nature of the drug such as its shape, crystallinity, particle size and solubility reflects the kinetics of the drug. Various models are used to study the dissolution profiles of the new drug substances. Qualitative and quantitative changes in the drug alters the drug release and performance that is action of drug in the body, which is in vivo performance. Various model dependent methods and model independent methods have been taken into consideration for studying the drug release kinetics