Background
Pellets (pills) are spherical or spheroid oral preparations with a diameter of 0.2-1.5 mm. The micropill has the advantages of good fluidity, easy capsule filling, small filling quantity difference and the like, and is more applied to long-acting and sustained-release dosage forms in the current pharmaceutical process, and is widely applied to micropill coating. Because the volume of the pellets is small, the pellets cannot be coated in a rotating or rolling way when the preparation is coated and applied, and the main stream coating mode is fluidized bed bottom spray coating.
In the preparation process of the pellets, because the pellets are smaller, static electricity can be generated by continuous abrasion among the pellets, impact between the pellets and the surface of equipment, and the like, the static electricity phenomenon is particularly obvious in the drying stage of coating ending, the discharging and bagging process and the next working procedure such as the capsule filling stage, so that the pellets are adhered to the medicinal polyethylene film bags, the use and the transfer processes are extremely inconvenient, and even the unstable filling amount of the pellets during the dosage division can be caused, and the quality of the medicines is unqualified.
The existing method for solving the static electricity comprises the steps of increasing humidity, reducing temperature, grounding wires, adding static electricity liquid and the like, and the method is not very practical for solving the static electricity of the medicine. Firstly, the humidity is increased, the temperature is reduced, the original technological parameters are influenced, and the adhesion of the pellets can be possibly caused; secondly, the grounding wire is proved to have no obvious improvement on the electrostatic problem of the pellets through multiple experiments; finally, although static electricity can be removed by static electricity liquid, most of the existing static electricity liquid is not edible, so that the static electricity liquid is not feasible for medicines.
In addition, the pharmaceutical industry also has the ability to remove static electricity by adding talc to the coating formulation or mixing the talc after removal of the material, but both methods use larger amounts of talc. Meanwhile, talcum powder has pore-forming agent in the coating liquid, which can affect the drug release; the mixed talcum powder after discharging has the effect of reducing static electricity, can not absolutely eliminate the static electricity, and has the dosage of at least 0.5 percent of the mass of the pellets, and the problem of talcum powder deposition easily occurs after mixing.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problem of static electricity of micropills, and provides a method for removing static electricity among micropills, which ensures that the micropills are beneficial to the next process operation (such as capsule filling), ensures the difference of pill loading and ensures the quality of medicines.
The technical problems to be solved by the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:
a method of removing static electricity between pellets, comprising: after the pellets are coated, spraying a hydroxypropyl cellulose solution according to the weight of the hydroxypropyl cellulose which is 2-5% of the mass of the pellets, controlling the temperature of the material at 40-50 ℃ when spraying the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution, and uniformly mixing the material with a small amount of talcum powder after the pellets are dried and discharged.
The concentration of the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution is 3-5 wt%.
As a preferable technical scheme of the method for removing static electricity among the micropellets, an anti-adhesion agent can be added into the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution to reduce the viscosity of the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution, and the concentration of the anti-adhesion agent in the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution is 3-5%wt; the anti-sticking agent can be talcum powder.
As a further specific technical scheme of the method for removing static electricity among the micropellets, the coating of the micropellets and the spraying of the hydroxypropyl cellulose solution for coating are carried out in a fluidized bed; comprising the following steps: after the pellets are coated, a fluidized bed bottom spraying technology is adopted to spray a hydroxypropyl cellulose solution for coating, the air inlet temperature is set to 55+/-5 ℃, and the air quantity is 100-200 m 3 Per hour, the atomization pressure is 1.5-3.0 kg/cm 2 Controlling the liquid spraying speed to be 2-5 g/min and the material temperature to be 40-50 ℃; after coating, setting the air inlet temperature of the fluidized bed at 40-50 ℃, drying and discharging.
After the pellets are dried and discharged, the talcum powder is generally used in an amount of 0.1-0.3% by weight of the mass of the pellets (calculated by spraying the hydroxypropyl cellulose pellets).
The micropill is a micro-pill of a drug of the group of the ribavirin, and can be particularly an micro-pill of the esomeprazole.
It is another object of the present invention to provide the use of hydroxypropylcellulose for removing 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 micropills by spraying the hydroxypropyl cellulose and then mixing a small amount of talcum powder, the micropills are not adhered to the medical polyethylene film bag after discharging, the loss in the transfer process caused by static electricity is reduced, the convenience of the micropills in the use and transfer process is improved, and the problems of unstable filling quantity of the micropills and unqualified medicine quality caused by static electricity in the next step of dosing are solved.
(2) The invention can carry out pellet preparation and hydroxypropyl cellulose solution coating in the same equipment, has simple process and can be controlled within the required weight increasing range without affecting the drug release.
Detailed Description
The invention will be further illustrated by the following examples, which are intended to illustrate, but not to limit, the invention.
The hydroxypropylcellulose used in the examples was HPC-L type product of Caddar, japan.
The micro-pills (particle size of 500-700 μm) of the drug used in the example refer to the prescription and the preparation process of the example 2 of Chinese patent CN1134666A, and the micro-pills with enteric coating are prepared by replacing omeprazole magnesium with the same amount of raw material drug Esomeprazole magnesium.
Example 1
The materials were weighed according to the following formula:
the preparation method comprises the following steps: adding the prescribed amount of hydroxypropyl cellulose into the prescribed amount of purified water, stirring for dissolving to obtain coating solution (the concentration of hydroxypropyl cellulose is 4%wt), adding the micro-pellets of the azole drugs into a fluidized bed, starting the bottom spraying of the fluidized bed, setting the air inlet temperature to 55 ℃, and setting the air quantity to 120m 3 /h, atomization pressure 2.0kg/cm 2 Controlling the spraying speed at 2-4 g/min, controlling the temperature of the material at 40-50 ℃ and performing spraying coating; 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 the prescription amount of hydroxypropyl cellulose into the prescription amount of purified water, stirring for dissolving, adding the prescription amount of talcum powder, stirring uniformly to obtain coating liquid, adding the micro-pellets of the azole drugs into a fluidized bed, starting the bottom spraying of the fluidized bed, setting the air inlet temperature to 55 ℃ and the air quantity to 140m 3 /h, atomization pressure 1.8kg/cm 2 Controlling the spraying speed at 3-5 g/min, controlling the material temperature at 40-50 ℃, and maintaining the stirring of the coating liquid to spray the liquid coating; 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 the prescription amount of hydroxypropyl cellulose into the prescription amount of purified water, stirring for dissolving to obtain coating liquid, adding the micro-pills of the azole drugs into a fluidized bed, starting the bottom spraying of the fluidized bed, setting the air inlet temperature to 55 ℃ and the air quantity to 150m 3 /h, atomization pressure 2.2kg/cm 2 Controlling the spraying speed at 2-4 g/min, controlling the material temperature at 40-50 ℃, and maintaining the stirring of the coating liquid to spray the liquid coating; 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 micro pill of a medicament of the group of lazole
Talc powder 1g
The preparation method comprises the following steps: adding talcum powder according to 0.5% of the weight of the micro-pill of the lazole drugs, and mixing.
Comparative example 2:
the materials were weighed according to the following formula:
mixing: 200g of micro pill of a medicament of the group of lazole
Talc powder 4g
The preparation method comprises the following steps: adding talcum powder according to 2% of the weight of the lazole micropill, and mixing.
Comparative example 3
Curing refers to the progressive film completion process that occurs from the aqueous dispersion by the incorporation of latex particles to form a coating. Static electricity removal refers to the elimination of charges on solids, liquids and even gases due to contact separation.
In view of the fact that the manner of spraying the hypromellose solution after coating the pellets is a common manner of curing the pellets, the inventors replaced the hypromellose of example 1 with hypromellose 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 the prescription amount of hypromellose into the prescription amount of purified water, stirring and dissolving to obtain coating liquid, adding the micro-pills of the azole drugs into a fluidized bed, starting the bottom spraying of the fluidized bed, setting the air inlet temperature to be 55 ℃, controlling the material temperature to be 40-50 ℃, and spraying liquid for 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.
Static electricity removal investigation
In fig. 1, pellets (i.e., pellets of a azole drug), example 1, example 2, comparative example 1, comparative example 2, and comparative example 3, which were prepared without any treatment, were shown to be in order from left to right. It can be seen that the pellets without any treatment had a large static electricity and the adhesion of the medicinal film bag was serious, the samples prepared in example 1, example 2 and example 3 (not shown) had little static electricity and no pellets adhered to the medicinal film bag, while the samples prepared in comparative example 1 and comparative example 3 had insignificant static electricity removing effect, and the comparative example 2 had a static electricity removing effect but had a talc powder deposition phenomenon because the amount of talc powder was as high as 2%.
Investigation of Release degree
The measuring method comprises the following steps: taking a sample (weighed according to a marked amount of 40 mg), taking a dissolution rate and release rate measuring method (general rule 0931, second method 1), taking 300mL of 0.l mol/L hydrochloric acid as a dissolution medium, rotating at 100 revolutions per minute, performing normal operation, adding 700mL of 0.086mol/L disodium hydrogen phosphate solution preheated to 37+/-0.5 ℃ into each dissolution cup after 2 hours, uniformly mixing, continuing normal operation at the constant rotating speed, filtering about 10mL of solution after 30 minutes, precisely measuring 5mL of continuous filtrate, precisely adding 1mL of 0.25mol/L sodium hydroxide solution, and shaking uniformly to serve as a sample solution; and (3) taking about 20mg of omeprazole reference substance, precisely weighing, placing into a 100mL measuring flask, adding 10mL of ethanol to dissolve, diluting to a scale by using 700mL of 0.086mol/L disodium hydrogen phosphate solution and 300mL of 0.1 mol/L hydrochloric acid solution, uniformly mixing, precisely weighing 10mL, placing into a 50mL measuring flask, diluting to the scale by using the pH 6.8 phosphate buffer solution, uniformly shaking, precisely weighing 5mL, precisely adding 1mL of 0.25mol/L sodium hydroxide solution, uniformly shaking, and taking as a reference substance solution. The dissolution amount was calculated by measuring the content method. The measurement results are shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1 results of drug Release test in micropill
From table 1, it is clear that there is no significant difference in the release rate of the esomeprazole magnesium pellets prepared in examples 1 to 3 compared to pellets without any treatment.