TY - BOOK AU - Balqees Saeed Ahmed Mohamed Hazaa AU - Ahmed Abdelbary Abdelrahman , AU - Howida Kamal Ibrahim , TI - A pharmaceutical study on some modified release solid dosage forms of certain statins / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Balqees Saeed Ahmed Mohamed Hazaa , KW - Hypercholesterolemia KW - Orodispersible KW - Simvastain N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Pharmacy - Department of Pharmaceutics; Issued also as CD N2 - Simvastatin is a potent inhibitor of 3- hydroxy - 3 - methy1 - glutary1 - coenzyme A ( HMG - CoA ) reductase and a cholesterol - lowering widely uaed to treat hypercholesterolemia . However, it gave poorly oral bioavailability ( < 5% ) due to its water - insolubility and extensive first pass metabolism by the CYP 450 isoform 3A4, and to a lesser degree, by CYP3A5, in the intestinal wall and liver UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -