Oral Extended Release Drug Delivery System:A Promising Approach

Oral drug delivery is the most preferred route for the various drug molecules among all other routes of drug delivery, because ease of administration which lead to better patient compliance. So, oral extended release drug delivery system becomes a very promising approach for those drugs that are given orally but having the shorter half-life and high dosing frequency. Extended release drug delivery system which reduce the dosing frequency of certain drugs by releasing the drug slowly over an extended period of time. There are various physiochemical and biological properties which affect the extended release drug delivery system. This article providing the recent literature regarding development and design of extended release tablets.