Pharma Excipients
Solids
Pharma-MMC, Pharmaceutical grade Mesoporous Magnesium Carbonate
Pharma-MMC is a proprietary drug delivery technology for amorphous stabilization and solubility enhancement of drug substances and for unique drug formulations - addressing unmet industry needs:
High drug-load (up to 50% w/w)
Long term amorphous stability of poorly soluble drugs (>12…
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Common Tableting Problems
Dr. Frank Oprach speaks about common problems encountered during tableting.
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Resins That Allow Distinctive Drug Delivery Solutions – POLYOX™ product information
POLYOX™ resins are nonionic poly (ethylene oxide) polymers. They are white to off-white, free-flowing hydrophilic powders supplied in a wide variety of viscosity grades corresponding to approximate molecular weight, ranging from 100,000 to 7,000,000 daltons. POLYOX™ polymers possess thermoplastic…
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Effect of coating time on inter- and intra-tablet coating uniformity
Film tablets are a common oral dosage form. For many of the functions film layers can have on pharmaceutical tablets, a high degree of coating uniformity is required.
In studies on coating uniformity the coefficient of variation is commonly used as a marker. Previous studies regarding the trend…
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Microencapsulation for Delivery of Probiotic Bacteria
In this era of modernization and hectic lifestyles, consumers demand functional foods providing nutrients with physiological and health benefits.
Probiotics belong to this in-demand category of functional and nutraceutical foods. Probiotics are selected viable microorganisms, administered in…
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Multi-dose oral abuse deterrent formulation of Loperamide using Hot melt extrusion
Loperamide, an over the counter anti-diarrheal drug, also infamously referred to as “poor man's methadone”.
Due to the ease of availability and low price, people/patients abuse it by consuming more than 30 tablets to achieve euphoric effect and to combat opioid withdrawal. But supratherapeutic…
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OSD Academy in Düsseldorf – September 24, 2019 – join us!
The OSD Academy is getting closer and the agenda of the day has been settled. For that we would like to give you a short outlook how your experience will look like. That is how the Formula of the Day will look like:
9:30 Reception
10:00 Opening and Welcome
10:15 “Excipient Selection:…
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Development and evaluation of synchronized and sustained release Tripergium Wilfordii tablets based…
Development of synchronized and sustained release preparations for herbal medicines is still a vast challenge due to their complicated components with different physicochemical properties.
In this study, tablets were developed to achieve synchronized and sustained release of the multi-components…
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Electrospun amorphous solid dispersions of meloxicam: Influence of polymer type and downstream…
The objectives of this work were to develop meloxicam based amorphous solid dispersion through electrospinning technique and evaluate the effect of the polymeric matrix on the physicochemical properties of the fibers and the downstream processing ability to orodispersible dosage forms.
Drug –…
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Tablet capping predictions of model materials using multivariate approach
The present study demonstrated the prediction of predominant root causes of capping behavior as a function of the powder rheological and the mechanical behavior of Acetaminophen (APAP) and Ibuprofen (IBU).
The authors analyzed powder rheological properties for powder blend permeability, pressure…
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