TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Adel Mohamed Alaa Eldin AU - Ahmed Abdelbary Abdelrahman , AU - Mina Ibrahim Tadros , TI - A pharmaceutical study on certain modified release etodolac dosage forms / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Adel Mohamed Alaa Eldin , KW - Controlled porosity osmotic pump ( CPOP ) tablets KW - Controlled release lipid matrix tablets KW - Etodolac N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Pharmacy - Department of Pharmaceutics; Issued also as CD N2 - Etodolac is non - steroidal anti - inflammatory drug acting by a preferential inhibition of cyclo - oxygenase - 2 ( COX - 2 ) enzyme . It is used for rheumatoid arthritis , including juvenile idiopathic arthritis , osteoathritis and for the treatment of acute pain . It has an elimination half - life of 7 hour and the recommended oral dose , 200 to 400 mg, is given every 6 to 8 hours to a maximum of 1.2 g daily , therefore it is a potential cadidate for controlled release formulations UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -