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Batch versus continuous blending of binary and ternary pharmaceutical powder mixtures
The material properties of excipients and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API's) are important parameters that affect blend uniformity of pharmaceutical powder formulations. With the current shift from batch to continuous manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry, blending of excipients and…
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Improving Tableting Performance of Lactose Monohydrate by Fluid-Bed Melt Granulation Co-Processing
Co-processing is commonly used approach to improve functional characteristics of pharmaceutical excipients to become suitable for tablet production by direct compression. This study aimed to improve tableting characteristics of lactose monohydrate (LMH) by co-processing by fluid-bed melt granulation…
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Development of a 3D-Printed Dosing Platform to Aid in Zolpidem Withdrawal Therapy
The long-term use of benzodiazepine receptor agonists (BZRAs) is associated with multiple side effects, such as increased sedation, hangover or an elevated risk of dependency and abuse. Unfortunately, the long-term use of BZRAs is reaching worrying intake rates, and therefore, the need for action is…
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Using a material database and data fusion method to accelerate the process model development of high…
High shear wet granulation (HSWG) has been wildly used in manufacturing of oral solid dosage (OSD) forms, and process modeling is vital to understanding and controlling this complex process. In this paper, data fusion and multivariate modeling technique were applied to develop a…
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Optimized Taste-Masked Microparticles for Orally Disintegrating Tablets as a Promising Dosage Form…
The objective of this research was to optimize the tasted-masked microparticles for orally disintegrating tablets containing donepezil hydrochloride using quality risk assessment and design of experiment approaches. The double emulsion solvent evaporation technique using aminoalkyl methacrylate…
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Screening pharmaceutical excipient powders for use in commercial 3D binder jetting printers
Binder jetting is an additive manufacturing technique that creates three-dimensional constructs from a powder feedstock. It is used by several industries, including pharmaceuticals. This additive approach to manufacture provides several functional benefits that are not easily achievable using…
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Evaluation of lactose based 3D powder bed printed pharmaceutical drug product tablets
It is key to understand powder blend characteristics in relation to tablet characteristics when using pharmaceutical 3D printing, in order to obtain 3D powder bed printed tablets that comply with the pharmaceutical specifications. There is limited literature available on excipient selection for 3D…
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Developing and evaluation of orodispersible tablets containing caffeine
Starting from the premise that a reduced number of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are used to treat hypotension, the aim of this study consisted of developing new formulations of caffeine-orodispersible tablets (CAF- ODTs). The formulation variables were the type of disintegrant…
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Improvement of a 1D Population Balance Model for Twin-Screw Wet Granulation by Using Identifiability…
Recently, the pharmaceutical industry has undergone changes in the production of solid oral dosages from traditional inefficient and expensive batch production to continuous manufacturing. The latest advancements include increased use of continuous twin-screw wet granulation and application of…
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The Influence of Equipment Design and Process Parameters on Granule Breakage in a Semi-Continuous…
The drying unit of a continuous from-powder-to-tablet manufacturing line based on twin-screw granulation (TSG) is a crucial intermediate process step to achieve the desired tablet quality. Understanding the size reduction of pharmaceutical granules before, during, and after the fluid bed drying…
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