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Strategies for enhancing the oral bioavailability of cannabinoids
Introduction
Oral administration of cannabinoids is a convenient route of administration in many cases. To enhance the poor and variable bioavailability of cannabinoids, selected strategies utilizing proper delivery systems have been designed. Low solubility in the GI aqueous media is the first…
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Lipid solutions for injectables
IOI Oleo GmbH - EXCIPIENTS FOR INJECTABLE FORMULATIONS
For injectable formulations, the selection of a pure excipient is key to ensure constant drug product quality, stability, efficacy, and finally patient safety.
IOI Oleo offers formulators a dedicated range of excipient-grade carrier…
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Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes with Antibiotics and Antibacterial Agents as Drug-Delivery…
Cyclodextrins (CDs) are a family of cyclic oligosaccharides, consisting of a macrocyclic ring of glucose subunits linked by α-1,4 glycosidic bonds. The shape of CD molecules is similar to a truncated cone with a hydrophobic inner cavity and a hydrophilic surface, which allows the formation of…
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Celecoxib-Loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles for Colon Delivery: Formulation Optimization and In Vitro…
This work aimed to optimize a celecoxib (CXB)-loaded solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) colon delivery system for the enhancement of anticancer activity. An ultrasonic melt-emulsification method was employed in this work for the preparation of SLN. The physical attributes were characterized for their…
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Controlling drug release by introducing lipase inhibitor within a lipid formulation
Drug overdose connected to marketed pharmaceutical products, particularly opioids, occurs at an alarming rate. Novel strategies through innovative formulation approaches that reduce the likelihood of overdose while allowing safe therapeutic outcomes are urgently required. The current study provides…
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Prediction of tablet weight variability from bulk flow properties by sparse modeling
Die filling is a critical step in the pharmaceutical tableting process as it determines the uniformity in tablet weight, which affects the drug content uniformity and appearance of tablets. With the progress in powder flow characterization, a wide variety of bulk flow properties can be obtained, and…
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Spray freeze drying for protein encapsulation: Impact of the formulation to morphology and stability
Proteins, the building blocks of life, are increasingly being used as therapeutics for treating several diseases. Yet, there are challenges in the delivery of highly labile materials like proteins, which is often circumvented with the help of encapsulation for targeted delivery and enhanced…
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A multivariate formulation and process development platform for direct compression
The efficient development of robust tableting processes is challenging due to the lack of mechanistic understanding on the impact of raw material properties and process parameters on tablet quality. The experimental determination of the effect of process and formulation parameters on tablet…
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On the complexity of predicting tablet capping
Predicting tablet defects, such as capping, that might occur during manufacturing, is a challenge in the pharmaceutical industry. In the literature, different parameters were presented to predict capping but no general consensus seems to have been reached yet. In this article, we chose to study a…
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A systematic and robust assessment of hot-melt extrusion-based amorphous solid dispersions:…
Amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) have gained attention as a formulation strategy in recent years, with the potential to improve the apparent solubility and, hence, the oral bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs. The process of formulating ASDs is commonly faced with challenges owing to the…
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