| Title | Taste evaluation of a novel midazolam tablet for pediatric patients: In vitro drug dissolution, in vivo animal taste aversion and clinical taste perception profiles |
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| Type | Journal article |
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| Authors | Cheung, L.C., Nguyen, M., Tang, E., von Ungern Sternberg, B.S., Salman, S., Tuleu, C., Mohamed Ahmed, A.H.A., Soto, J. and Lim, L.Y. |
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| Abstract | Harmonized methodologies are urgently required for the taste evaluation of novel pediatric medicines. This study utilized in vitro, in vivo and clinical data to evaluate the palatability of a novel midazolam chocolate tablet. In vitro dissolution experiments showed the crushed tablet to release within 5 min 1.68 mg of midazolam into simulated saliva. This translated to a drug level of 0.84 mg/ml in the oral cavity, which would be higher than the midazolam bitterness detection threshold concentration of 0.03 mg/ml determined in a rat ‘brief access taste aversion’ (BATA) model. The visual analogue scale scores of patients aged 4–16 years prescribed with midazolam pre-surgery showed a clear preference for the midazolam chocolate tablets (3.35 ± 1.04, n = 20) compared to the control midazolam solution (1.47 ± 0.62, n = 17). The clinical data was in agreement with the in vivo rodent data in showing the novel chocolate tablet matrix to be effective at taste-masking the bitter midazolam. |
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| Journal | International Journal of Pharmaceutics |
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| Journal citation | 535 (1-2), pp. 194-200 |
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| ISSN | 0378-5173 |
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| 1873-3476 |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Publisher | Elsevier |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2017.10.060 |
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| Published | 15 Jan 2018 |
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