A Review on Extended Release Pellets

Abstract

Recently, extended release pharmaceutical products become a very useful tool in medical practice, offering a wide range of actual and perceived advantages to the patients. Oral drug delivery is the most preferred route for the various drug molecules among all other routes of drug delivery, because easy 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.

Keywords: Extended Release, Oral route, Therapeutic concentration, Pellet, Dosage form