Drug bioavailability improvement, methods system

Systemic absorption of a drug substance from a particulate form takes place after the compound enters the dissolved state. If the dissolution rate of the substance is less than the diffusion rate to the site of absorption and the absorption rate itself, then the dissolution process will be the rate-determining step. This situation is characteristic of drug substances that have low degrees of aqueous solubility, and therefore low dissolution rates, and it has become an established tenet in pharmaceutics that one method to improve the dissolution rate of a relatively insoluble substance is to reduce the particle size of its component particles. As discussed above, the solubilities of polymorphs, solvatomorphs, and amorphous forms are different, and these differences may lead to differences in the dissolution rate, which in turn could lead to differences in bioavailability. 

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