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Quiz: Design a Delayed-Release Tablet

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1. Explain why some medicines are packaged as coated capsules while others come as solid pressed (uncoated) tablets.
2. Describe in your own words what a delayed-release drug is.
3. How can you achieve the delayed release of an active ingredient?
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4. Name one important material property that a substance used to coat a delayed-release tablet should have.
5. Draw a picture of what happens to a polymer-coated delayed-release drug inside the body over time. Label the important components.

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