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3D Printing Technology: A New Approach for the Fabrication of Personalized and Customized…
3DP is a computer-aided design with the interesting innovation of prototyping layer-by-layer, creating 3D articles as digital blueprints to accomplish unequaled gracefulness, time protection, and extraordinary assembling ability of pharmaceutical dosage forms. 3D printing technology offers a novel…
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The hot melt extrusion difference
Poor solubility of APIs is a critical challenge in drug development. One formulation technique to increase solubility and, consequently, improve bioavailability of drugs is hot melt extrusion (HME). With this technology, the API is…
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Selective Laser Sintering for printing pharmaceutical dosage forms
Abstract
Three-dimensional (3D) printing has revolutionised the field of pharmaceutical manufacturing due to the unique capabilities to tailor the dosage forms properties and overcome constrains of conventional technologies. There is a plurality of 3D printing techniques that offer flexibility on…
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Controlled delivery via hot-melt extrusion: A focus on non-biodegradable carriers for non-oral…
Hot-melt extrusion (HME) has an esteemed place in the pharmaceutical industry with significant applications and advancements spreading over 30 years of development. Currently, the choice of matrix excipients is vast, expanding from all different kinds of synthetic polymers to natural carriers.…
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Preparation of mucoadhesive methacrylated chitosan nanoparticles for delivery of ciprofloxacin
Mucoadhesive polymers and their nanoparticles have attracted a lot of attention in pharmaceutical applications, especially transmucosal drug delivery (TDD). Mucoadhesive polysaccharide-based nanoparticles, particularly chitosan, and its derivatives, are widely used for TDD owing to their outstanding…
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Sustained Release of Salicylic Acid from Ethyl Cellulose Microspheres Fabricated Using…
Delivery of drugs using micro-sized particles is an efficient tool. Using ethyl cellulose (EC) as a polymer and the quasi-emulsion solvent diffusion (QESD) method paves the way for the utilization of a cost-effective polymer and an efficient fabrication method. Poly(vinyl alcohol) in water was used…
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Fabrication and optimization of itraconazole-loaded zein-based nanoparticles in coated capsules as a…
Itraconazole (ITZ), a broad-spectrum antifungal drug, was formulated into colon-targeting system aiming to treat opportunistic colonic fungal infections that commonly infect chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) patients due to immunosuppressive therapy. Antisolvent precipitation technique was…
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Solid implantable devices for sustained drug delivery
Implantable drug delivery systems (IDDS) are an attractive alternative to conventional drug administration routes. Oral and injectable drug administration are the most common routes for drug delivery providing peaks of drug concentrations in blood after administration followed by concentration decay…
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Polyvinyl alcohol: Revival of a long lost polymer
Introduction
With target-oriented drug discovery and an increasing focus on specialized medicines, the manufacturing of final drug products is becoming more and more complex. The processing and formulation of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) designed with a specific target and functionality…
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New insights on the effects of blend composition on the biodegradation and permeability of…
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Inulin has been applied in Inulin-Eudragit RS (Inu-ERS) coatings as the component responsible for degradation by human microbiota. However, studies on how bacterial enzymes can degrade polysaccharides like inulin imbedded in water insoluble polymers like Eudragit RS are still elusive. The…
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