Gastro-retentive dosage form offer many advantages having absorption from upper gastrointestinal tract and improve the bioavailability of medications that are characterized by a narrow absorption window. A new gastro-retentive floating drug delivery system was developed for ciprofloxacin preferably once daily. The design of the delivery system was based on the sustained release formulation with floating and swelling features in order to prolong the gastric retention time of the drug delivery system. Final formulations were prepared and optimized by Box-Behnken design by using HPMC K100M and Carbopol 934 as a polymers and sodium bicarbonate as a gas generating agent. The tablets were prepared by wet granulation method. The prepared formulations were evaluated for hardness, weight variations, thickness, swelling index, in-vitro buoyancy, drug content and drug release study. The effect of polymer (HPMC K100M and Carbopol 934) concentration on drug release profile and swelling index was evaluated. The in-vitro dissolution study showed that the drug release profile could be sustained by increasing the concentration of polymers (HPMC K100M and Carbopol 934). Result of swelling index showed that increasing the concentration of polymers, increases the swelling index of tablet. The optimized formulations containing 12.36 % of HPMC K100M, 7.47 % of Carbopol 934 and 18.66% of Sodium bicarbonate with citric acid in the ratio of 2:1 sustained the drug release upto 12 hours, following Higuchi model of drug release and drug release mechanism was non-fickian diffusion. This study proves that using HPMC K100M and Carbopol 934 as a matrix polymer in combination with Sodium Bicarbonate as a gas generating agent can be used to develop sustained release floating tablets of Ciprofloxacin.
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