Capsules are a popular dosage form in the pharmaceutical industry because they provide an easy and convenient way to administer medications, offering precise dosage control. They can be formulated to contain a variety of active ingredients, including powders, liquids, and pellets, and can also be designed for immediate or extended release. Capsules protect sensitive drugs from environmental factors like light and air, enhancing drug stability and patient adherence.
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Oral Solids – Practical Pharmaceutics Part 2
An International Guideline for the Preparation, Care and Use of Medicinal Products
See the new book, edited by Paul Le Brun, Sylvie Crauste-Manciet, Irene Krämer, Julian Smith, Herman Woerdenbag:
Description: Practical Pharmaceutics contains essential knowledge on the preparation, quality…
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Micro-dosing of powders into capsules using a new automated micro-dosing system: effect of powder…
Abstract
Objective
To demonstrate the applicability of a novel micro-dosing system for precisely filling low powder doses (down to a few mg) into capsules along with weighing the filled powder mass accurately.
Methods
Ten commonly used pharmaceutical powders, ranging from cohesive…
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Optimization and Evaluation of Lisinopril Mucoadhesive Sustained Release Matrix Pellets: In-Vitro…
Lisinopril (LIS) it is antihypertensive drug, classified as a class III drug with a high water solubility and low permeability. To overcome the low permeability, 32 factorial designs aimed to formulate LIS as a sustained-release (LIS-SR) matrix pellet by extrusion/spheronization. Matrix pellets were…
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Kollicoat® Smartseal combines an effective taste-masking functionality with efficient processing
Kollicoat® Smartseal 30 D and Kollicoat® Smartseal 100 P can help formulators tackle challenges when handling bitter active ingredients. It offers superior protection from unpleasant drug taste for minitablets, pellets, particles, and granules used in orally disintegrating dosage forms, improving…
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Soft capsule technology: modified pea starch as a vegetal origin alternative to gelatin in capsule…
Introduction
Gelatin has been used as shell polymer in the manufacture of soft gelatin capsules (softgels) for about the past century. Its rheological and thermal properties offer adequate balance for subsequent process steps including gel solution preparation/transportation, film casting, and…
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Colon targeted releases and uptakes of paclitaxel loaded in modified porous starch
Hyaluronic acid can modify porous starch through cross-linking and hydrogen bonding, effectively achieving a paclitaxel entrapment efficiency of ∼92 % and drug loading of ∼23 %. In this study, the pores and intergranular gaps of porous starch were filled with paclitaxel under solvent volatilization,…
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Elucidation of the using condition and working mechanism of tertiary lactose in dry powder…
Tertiary lactose has been shown to improve aerosolization performance of carrier-based dry powder inhalation formulations. The working mechanism of the tertiary lactose, however, is still unclear, even the optimal working condition of the lactose fines. Two strategies to incorporate the tertiary…
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Eudragit® FS Microparticles Containing Bacteriophages, Prepared by Spray-Drying for Oral…
Phage therapy is recognized to be a promising alternative to fight antibiotic-resistant infections. In the quest for oral dosage forms containing bacteriophages, the utilization of colonic-release Eudragit® derivatives has shown potential in shielding bacteriophages from the challenges encountered…
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Formulation and processing of solid self-emulsifying delivery systems (HME S-SEDDS): A single-step…
The objective of the current study is the formulation development and manufacturing of solid self-emulsifying delivery systems (HME S-SEDDS) via a single-step continuous hot-melt extrusion (HME) process. For this study, poorly soluble fenofibrate was selected as a model drug. From the results of…
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Numerical simulation of five different screw configurations used during the preparation of hot-melt…
This work developed immediate-release hot melt extruded pellets containing the poorly aqueous soluble drug Indomethacin with five different screw configurations for oral application. Moreover, numerical simulation concerning residence time was performed for each configuration to give valuable tools…
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