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Table 3
Kinetic models used for analysis of TFV release rate from MS F, TFV-CTS-SA-GP, and MS F-CTS-SA-GP and their corresponding
values.
| Formulations | Model name | Model equation | | pH 4.5 | pH 7.4 |
| MS F | Zero-order | | 0.6455 | 0.6392 | First-order | | 0.8104 | 0.7558 | Higuchi | | 0.8477 | 0.9489 | Ritger-peppas | | 0.9301 | 0.8934 | Weibull | | 0.9771 () | 0.9905 () |
| TFV-CTS-SA-GP | Zero-order | | 0.7522 | 0.5288 | First-order | | 0.9289 | 0.7009 | Higuchi | | 0.9218 | 0.7467 | Ritger-peppas | | 0.8698 | 0.8382 | Weibull | | 0.9961 () | 0.903 () |
| MS F-CTS-SA-GP | Zero-order | | 0.6556 | 0.6392 | First-order | | 0.9289 | 0.7558 | Higuchi | | 0.8487 | 0.9489 | Ritger-peppas | | 0.8698 | 0.8934 | Weibull | | 0.9644 () | 0.9905 () |
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is the constant of Weibull models.
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