Pharma Excipients
Calcium CarbonateCMC and Croscarmellose Sodium
Development of a Pediatric Mini-Tablet Formulation for Expedited Preclinical Studies
Multiple considerations are essential to address the main challenges of dose flexibility and patient adherence in pediatric drug development, particularly for oncology. Mini-tablets, 2 mm in diameter, were manufactured using a rotary tablet press at a set weight and compression force level. The…
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Evaluation of Gelling Behavior of Natural Gums and their Formulation Prospects
Purpose: Gums and polymers can be found abundantly in the nature from various plants, microbial and marine sources. Their physical and functional characteristics can be customized according to its application in product development. The purpose of this study is to determine the potentiality of…
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Novel Drug Delivery Systems Fighting Glaucoma: Formulation Obstacles and Solutions
Glaucoma is considered to be one of the biggest health problems in the world. It is the main cause of preventable blindness due to its asymptomatic nature in the early stages on the one hand and patients’ non-adherence on the other. There are several approaches in glaucoma treatment, whereby this…
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Orally Disintegrating Tablets? HiSORAD – Directly Compressible Excipient for ODTs –…
HiSORAD is a state-of-the-art co-processed excipient for orally disintegrating tablets designed to have well-balanced property between orally disintegration time and tablet hardness. HiSORAD enables to produce ODTs by direct compression with three advantages: Practical flowability, excellent…
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Process optimization of twin-screw melt granulation of fenofibrate using design of experiment (DoE)
The purpose of this study was to optimize the melt granulation process of fenofibrate using twin-screw granulator. Initial screening was performed to select the excipients required for melt granulation process. A 3 × 3 factorial design was used to optimize the processing conditions using the % drug…
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Pharmaceutical applications of aqueous scaled-up electrospinning
Thesis findings
A solid formulation of a model biopharmaceutical drug (β-galactosidase) was developed and produced by high-speed electrospinning for the first time. A fully aqueous polymeric solution was successfully electrospun with a 30 mL/h feeding rate, which is about 30x higher than the…
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Ternary Amorphous Solid Dispersions Containing a High-Viscosity Polymer and Mesoporous Silica…
The aim of this study was to evaluate the benefits of a ternary amorphous solid dispersion (ASD) that was designed as an immediate-release tablet with a high drug load (e.g., 40% w/w) to produce heightened maintenance of drug supersaturation during dissolution testing, which will be henceforth…
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A Fast release tablet containing Herbal extracts (Ginger, Cinnamon, Turmeric, Long pepper and…
The aim of the present work is to formulate a fast release tablet containing herbal extracts (ginger, cinnamon, turmeric, long pepper and punarnava) as drug, by direct compression method. Tablets contain super-disintegrant which disintegrate and dissolve fast and give its rapid onset of action. The…
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Disintegrant Selection in Hydrophobic Tablet Formulations
The hydrophobicity of poorly soluble drugs can delay tablets disintegration. We probed here the influence of different disintegrants on the disintegration of challenging hydrophobic formulations. Tablets containing diluents, hydrogenated vegetable oil and either sodium starch glycolate (SSG),…
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Impact of polymer type, ASD loading and polymer-drug ratio on ASD tablet disintegration and drug…
Amorphous solid dispersion (ASD) has become an attractive strategy to enhance solubility and bioavailability of poorly water-soluble drugs. To facilitate oral administration, ASDs are commonly incorporated into tablets. Disintegration and drug release from ASD tablets are thus critical for achieving…
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