Magnesium stearate, also known as magnesium octadecanoate, is a common additive used in the pharmaceutical industry. It is a white, odorless, and tasteless powder that is highly insoluble in water, but soluble in organic solvents.
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Beyond tablets’ physical characteristics: Incorporating environmental sustainability metrics into…
Despite lubricants' indispensable roles in the production of pharmaceutical tablets. The selection of lubricant for pharmaceutical tableting has been largely empirical, where most tablets are produced using magnesium stearate (MgSt) as the lubricant. Even though many other lubricants (e.g.,…
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Impact of unloading kinematics on the occurrence of capping during the production of pharmaceutical…
Capping is a common defect that can occur during the manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets. Several studies showed that decreasing the unloading speed of the manufacturing cycle plays a role in the occurrence of such defects. Following this idea, we study in this work the influence of the…
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Proof-of-Concept for Adjusted Surface Energies and Modified Fines as a Novel Concept in Particle…
Currently marketed dry powder inhaler (DPI) medicine lacks drug delivery performance due to insufficient powder dispersion. In carrier-based blends, incomplete drug detachment is typically attributed to excessive adhesion forces between carrier and drug particles. Adding force control agents (FCA)…
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UV/VIS imaging-based PAT tool for drug particle size inspection in intact tablets supported by…
The potential of machine vision systems has not currently been exploited for pharmaceutical applications, although expected to provide revolutionary solutions for in-process and final product testing. The presented paper aimed to analyze the particle size of meloxicam, a yellow model active…
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Hyperthermia-Induced In Situ Drug Amorphization by Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles in Oral Dosage…
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) generate heat upon exposure to an alternating magnetic field (AMF), which has been studied for hyperthermia treatment and triggered drug release. This study introduces a novel application of magnetic hyperthermia to induce amorphization of a poorly…
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Modelling the Compaction Step of a Platform Direct Compression Process
The ability to predict formulation behaviour at production scale during formulation design can reduce the time to market and decrease product development costs. However, it is challenging to extrapolate compaction settings for direct compression formulations between tablet press models during…
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Process Model Approach to Predict Tablet Weight Variability for Direct Compression Formulations at…
Optimizing processing conditions to achieve a critical quality attribute (CQA) is an integral part of pharmaceutical quality by design (QbD). It identifies combinations of material and processing parameters ensuring that processing conditions achieve a targeted CQA. Optimum processing conditions are…
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Effect of feed frame on lubricant sensitivity during upscaling from a compaction simulator to a…
Internal lubrication can be associated with reduced tabletability. Deformation mechanism, lubricant type, lubricant blending time and paddle speed (PS) of the forced feeder are known to be influenceable factors. This study investigated the effect of lubricant blending time and PS of forced feeders…
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Influence of surface interaction between drug and excipient in binary mixture for dry powder inhaler…
The present study documents the drug-excipient incompatibility in the physical mixtures and its influence on bulk homogeneity and flowability for dry powder inhalers (DPI) applications. Binary mixtures with the model drugs (aceclofenac; salbutamol sulphate) and lactose monohydrate were prepared…
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Prediction of the impact of lubrication on tablet compactibility
The tableting of most pharmaceutical formulations requires the addition of lubricants to reduce ejection forces, prevent tooling damage and tablet defects. The internal addition of lubricants is known to reduce tablet tensile strength, especially of mainly plastically deforming materials. To date,…
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