The present study is designed and significantly planned to study the effect of double-compression coating on core mini-tablets to attain the chronopharmaceutical delivery of ketorolac tromethamine to colon. Double-compression coated tablets were prepared based on time-controlled hydroxypropyl methylcellulose K100M inner compression coat and pH-sensitive Eudragit S100 outer compression coat. From the in vitro drug release studies, F6 tablets was considered as the optimized formulation, which retarded the drug release in stomach and small intestine (3.51±0.15% in 5h) and progressively released to colon (99.82±0.69% in 24h). The release process followed supercase-II transport with zero order release kinetics.

 

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