enteric coating

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Used on tablets, granules, pellets, and capsules to make them resistant to gastric fluids but designed to disintegrate, disrupt, or dissolve when the preparation enters the duodenum.
Note: Enteric coating is used for one of the following reasons:
  • To protect the drug from degradation by the acid in the stomach (e.g., erythromycin).
  • To protect the stomach from the irritant effect of the drug (e.g., aspirin).
  • To facilitate absorption of a drug distally to the stomach.
See also: delayed release dosage form
Source:
PAC, 2009, 81, 971. (Glossary of terms related to pharmaceutics (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)) on page 984 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'enteric coating' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.15185 RIS BibTex EndNote
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