%0 Journal Article %T Avalia£¿£¿o da pectina fosfatada aplicada na forma£¿£¿o de filmes isolados: Material candidato a novos sistemas para libera£¿£¿o modificada de f¨¢rmacos %A Souto-Maior %A Jo£¿o Philype Andrade %A Reis %A Adriano Valim %A Pedreiro %A Liliane Neves %A Cavalcanti %A Osvaldo Albuquerque %J Revista Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias Farmac¨ºuticas %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1516-93322008000200006 %X phosphated pectin (pect-tmft) together with ¦Á-gluco-oligossacaride (bioecolians£¿) were incorporated into aqueous dispersion of polymethacrylate (eudragit£¿ rs 30 d) to obtain free films by the casting process (50oc) in teflon£¿ plate. pect-tmft and bioecolians£¿ were added into dispersions of eudragit £¿ rs 30 d at different rates: 90:05:05, 80:10:10 and 70:20:10 (4% p/v). triethyl citrate (tec) was used as plasticizer (20% of mass of the polymethacrylate). the proposed dispersions showed film formation ability. the free films were characterized by the determination of water vapour transmission (wvt), by the swelling index (ii%) in fluids of gastric simulation (fgs) and intestinal (fis) and by scanning electron microscopy (sem). the increase of modified polysaccharide and bioecolians£¿ in the films favored their permeability to the water vapour and their hydration degree when in fis (ph = 6.8). in that way, the obtained film in the concentration 70:20:10, can prevent the premature release of the drug in the up git when applied to develop oral solid systems coating. besides, the presence of pect-tmft and bioecolians£¿ can contribute to the specific membrane degradation by colonic microflora enzymes, making possible a modified release kinetics of drugs even with the existence of inter-individual variations of ph. %K phosphated pectin %K free films %K ¦Á-gluco-olygosaccharides %K eudragit£¿ rs 30 d %K drugs [modified release]. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1516-93322008000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en