Formulation and evalution of montelukast sodium - chitosan based spray dried microspheres for pulmonary drug delivery

• Main Authors: Rushi Panchal (Author), Harsha Patel (Author), Vishnu Patel (Author), Pratik Joshi (Author), Ankit Parikh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The objective of present work was to prepare microspheres of montelukast sodium using a natural polymer- chitosan by spray drying method by using glutaraldehyde as a cross linking agent. The microspheres were characterized for size, shape, dissolution, swelling and mucoadhesion. It was observed that...