Background
The Pellets (Pellets) are spherical or spheroidal oral preparations with a diameter of 0.2-1.5 mm. The pellet has the advantages of good fluidity, easy capsule filling, small filling quantity difference and the like, is more applied to long-acting and sustained and controlled release dosage forms in the current pharmaceutical technology, and is widely applied to pellet coating. And because the pellet is small in size, when the preparation is coated and loaded, the rotary coating or rolling coating cannot be carried out, and the main stream coating form is still fluidized bed bottom spraying coating.
In the process of preparing the pellets, because the pellets are small, the pellets are continuously rubbed, the pellets can generate static electricity when being impacted with the surface of equipment, and the static electricity phenomenon is particularly obvious in the drying stage after coating, the discharging and bagging process and the next process step such as the capsule filling stage, so that the pellets are adhered to a medical polyethylene film bag, the use and transfer process is extremely inconvenient, and even the problem of unqualified medicine quality caused by unstable pellet loading during dosage can be caused.
The existing methods for solving the static electricity include increasing humidity, reducing temperature, grounding wires, adding static electricity liquid and the like, and the methods are not very feasible when used for solving the static electricity of the medicine. Firstly, increasing the humidity and reducing the temperature can affect the original process parameters, possibly causing the pellets to be sticky; secondly, multiple tests prove that the grounding wire does not obviously improve the electrostatic problem of the pellets; finally, while electrostatic liquids can remove static electricity, most of the existing electrostatic liquids are inedible and therefore not feasible for use in medicine.
In addition, the pharmaceutical industry has also been directed to removing static electricity by adding talc to the coating formulation or by blending talc after discharge, but both methods use larger amounts of talc. Meanwhile, the talcum powder has a pore-forming agent in the coating liquid, which affects the release of the medicine; although the talc powder mixed after discharging has the function of reducing static electricity and can not absolutely eliminate the static electricity, the dosage is at least 0.5 percent of the mass of the pellet, and the problem of talc powder deposition is easy to occur after mixing.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problem of pellet static electricity, and provides a method for removing the static electricity among the pellets, so that the pellets are beneficial to the next process operation (such as capsule filling), the loading difference of the pellets is ensured, and the quality of the medicine is ensured.
The technical problem to be solved by the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:
a method of removing inter-pellet static electricity comprising: after coating the pellets, spraying a hydroxypropyl cellulose solution according to the condition that the dosage of the hydroxypropyl cellulose is 2-5 wt% of the mass of the pellets, controlling the temperature of the material to be 40-50 ℃ when spraying the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution, and mixing the pellets with a small amount of talcum powder after drying and discharging the pellets.
The concentration of the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution is 3 to 5 percent by weight.
As the preferred technical scheme of the method for removing the static electricity among the pellets, the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution can be added with an anti-sticking agent to reduce the viscosity of the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution, and the concentration of the anti-sticking agent in the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution is 3-5 percent by weight; the antisticking agent can be talcum powder.
As a further specific technical scheme of the method for removing the static electricity among the pellets, the pellet coating and the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution spraying are carried out in a fluidized bed; the method comprises the following steps: after coating the pellets, spraying hydroxypropyl cellulose solution in a fluidized bed by adopting a fluidized bed bottom spraying technology for coating, wherein the air inlet temperature is set to be 55 +/-5 ℃, and the air volume is 100-200 m 3 The atomization pressure is 1.5-3.0 kg/cm 2 Control ofThe spraying speed is 2-5 g/min, and the material temperature is controlled at 40-50 ℃; and after the coating is finished, setting the air inlet temperature of the fluidized bed to be 40-50 ℃, drying and discharging.
After the pellets are dried and discharged, the dosage of the talcum powder is generally 0.1-0.3 wt% of the mass of the pellets (calculated by spraying the pellets with hydroxypropyl cellulose).
The pellet is a prazole drug pellet, and specifically can be an esomeprazole pellet.
It is another object of the present invention to provide the use of hydroxypropylcellulose for removing the static electricity between pellets.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) the invention solves the problem of static electricity among the pellets by spraying hydroxypropyl cellulose and then mixing a small amount of talcum powder, the pellets are not adhered to a medical polyethylene film bag after being discharged, the loss in the transfer process caused by static electricity is reduced, the convenience in the use and transfer process of the pellets is increased, and the problems of unstable pellet loading and unqualified medicine quality caused by static electricity in the next step of dosage division are solved.
(2) The invention can prepare the micropills and coat the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution in the same equipment, has simple process and does not influence the drug release when being controlled within the required weight increment range.
Detailed Description
The invention is further illustrated by the following examples, which are intended to be illustrative and not limiting.
The hydroxypropylcellulose used in the examples was HPC-L type product of Nippon soda.
The pellet (particle size is 500-700 μm) of the prazole medicine used in the embodiment refers to the prescription and preparation process of the Chinese patent CN1134666A embodiment 2, and the enteric-coated pellet is prepared by replacing magnesium omeprazole with the equivalent raw material esomeprazole magnesium.
Example 1
The materials were weighed according to the following formula:
the preparation method comprises the following steps: adding hydroxypropyl cellulose in the prescription amount into purified water in the prescription amount, stirring for dissolving to obtain coating solution (hydroxypropyl cellulose concentration is 4 wt%), adding the prazole drug pellets into a fluidized bed, starting bottom spraying of the fluidized bed, setting air inlet temperature at 55 deg.C and air volume at 120m 3 H, atomization pressure 2.0kg/cm 2 Controlling the spraying speed to be 2-4 g/min, controlling the material temperature to be 40-50 ℃, and performing spraying coating; and after coating, controlling the temperature of the fluidized bed material to be 40-50 ℃, drying for 30min, discharging, and adding 0.4g of talcum powder for mixing.
Example 2
The materials were weighed according to the following formula:
the preparation method comprises the following steps: adding hydroxypropyl cellulose in the amount of the prescription into purified water in the amount of the prescription, stirring for dissolving, adding talcum powder in the amount of the prescription, stirring uniformly to obtain a coating solution, adding the prazole drug pellets into a fluidized bed, starting the bottom spraying of the fluidized bed, setting the air inlet temperature at 55 ℃, and the air volume at 140m 3 H, atomization pressure 1.8kg/cm 2 Controlling the spraying speed to be 3-5 g/min, controlling the material temperature to be 40-50 ℃, and maintaining the stirring of the coating liquid to carry out spraying coating; and after coating, controlling the temperature of the fluidized bed material to be 40-50 ℃, drying for 30min, discharging, and adding 0.3g of talcum powder for mixing.
Example 3
The materials were weighed according to the following formula:
the preparation method comprises the following steps: adding hydroxypropyl cellulose in the prescription amount into purified water in the prescription amount, stirring for dissolving to obtain coating solution, adding the prazole drug pellets into a fluidized bed, starting the bottom spraying of the fluidized bed, setting the air inlet temperature at 55 ℃ and the air volume at 150m 3 H, atomization pressure 2.2kg/cm 2 Controlling the spraying speed to be 2-4 g/min, controlling the material temperature to be 40-50 ℃, and maintaining the stirring of the coating liquid to carry out spraying coating; and after coating, controlling the temperature of the fluidized bed material to be 40-50 ℃, drying for 30min, discharging, and adding 0.3g of talcum powder for mixing.
Comparative example 1
The materials were weighed according to the following formula:
mixing: 200g of prazole drug pellets
Talcum powder 1g
The preparation method comprises the following steps: adding talcum powder according to 0.5 percent of the mass of the prazole medicine pellets, and mixing to obtain the prazole medicine pellets.
Comparative example 2:
the materials were weighed according to the following formula:
mixing: 200g of prazole drug pellets
Talcum powder 4g
The preparation method comprises the following steps: adding talcum powder according to 2 percent of the mass of the prazole pellets, and mixing to obtain the prazole pellet.
Comparative example 3
Curing refers to the progressive film formation process that occurs from an aqueous dispersion by the coalescence of latex particles to form a coating. Static electricity removal means to remove the charges on the solid, liquid or even gas due to contact separation.
In view of the fact that the method of spraying hypromellose solution after coating the pellets is a common pellet curing method, the inventors replaced hypromellose with hypromellose in example 1 to observe the effect of removing static electricity.
The materials were weighed according to the following formula:
the preparation method comprises the following steps: adding hydroxypropyl methylcellulose in a prescription amount into purified water in a prescription amount, stirring and dissolving to obtain a coating solution, adding the prazole drug pellets into a fluidized bed, starting bottom spraying of the fluidized bed, setting the air inlet temperature to be 55 ℃, controlling the material temperature to be 40-50 ℃, and performing spray coating; after coating, controlling the temperature of the fluidized bed material to be 40-50 ℃, drying for 30min, and discharging; 0.4g of talc was added and mixed.
Investigation of static removal
In fig. 1, pellets without any treatment (i.e., pellets of a prazole drug), pellets obtained in example 1, example 2, comparative example 1, comparative example 2, and comparative example 3 are shown from left to right. It can be seen that the pellets which were not subjected to any treatment had a large static electricity, the sticking to the film bag was severe, the samples prepared in examples 1, 2 and 3 (not shown) had almost no static electricity, and no pellets were stuck to the film bag, whereas the static electricity removing effect was not significant in the samples prepared in comparative examples 1 and 3, and the phenomenon of the deposition of talc powder occurred in comparative example 2 because the amount of talc was as high as 2% although the static electricity was removed.
Release Rate investigation
The measuring method comprises the following steps: taking a sample (weighed according to 40mg of marked amount), taking a dissolution and release determination method (generally, 0931, method 1 of the second method), taking 300mL0.l mol/L hydrochloric acid as a dissolution medium, rotating at 100 revolutions per minute, operating according to the method, immediately adding 700mL of 0.086mol/L disodium hydrogen phosphate solution preheated to 37 +/-0.5 ℃ into each dissolution cup after 2 hours of operation according to the method, uniformly mixing, continuing operating according to the method, filtering about 10mL of solution after 30 minutes, precisely taking 5mL of filtrate, precisely adding 1mL0.25mol/L sodium hydroxide solution, shaking uniformly to serve as a sample solution; taking about 20mg of omeprazole reference substance, precisely weighing, placing in a 100mL measuring flask, adding 10mL of ethanol for dissolving, diluting to a scale with a pH 6.8 phosphate buffer solution (obtained by uniformly mixing 700mL of 0.086mol/L disodium hydrogen phosphate solution and 300mL of 0.1 mol/L hydrochloric acid solution), shaking up, precisely measuring 10mL, placing in a 50mL measuring flask, diluting to a scale with the pH 6.8 phosphate buffer solution, shaking up, precisely measuring 5mL, precisely adding 1mL of 0.25mol/L sodium hydroxide solution, shaking up to serve as the reference substance solution. The amount of elution was calculated according to the content method. The results are shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1 drug Release test results in pellets
As can be seen from table 1, there is no significant difference in the release of esomeprazole magnesium pellets prepared in examples 1-3 compared to pellets without any treatment.