Magnesium stearate, also known as magnesium octadecanoate, is a common additive used in the pharmaceutical industry. It is a white, odorless, and tasteless powder that is highly insoluble in water, but soluble in organic solvents.
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Beyond Tableting Lubrication – PRUV® by JRS Pharma
PRUV® by JRS Pharma is a tablet lubricant designed for formulations in which other lubricants lead to formulation and/or manufacturing challenges. As opposed to the frequently used lubricant, magnesium stearate, PRUV® offers the following advantages:
High degree of API compatibility*…
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Colon Drug Delivery Systems Based on Swellable and Microbially Degradable High-Methoxyl Pectin:…
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Oral colon delivery systems based on a dual targeting strategy, harnessing time- and microbiota-dependent release mechanisms, were designed in the form of a drug-containing core, a swellable/biodegradable polysaccharide inner layer and a gastroresistant outer film. High-methoxyl pectin was…
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Optimizing API Load and Minimizing Tablet Weight Leveraging an Innovative DC Mannitol
Presented at the 14th World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical (PBP) Technology, 18 - 21 March 2024, Vienna, Austria:
INTRODUCTION
Tablets with stability issues often use mannitol, a stable, water-soluble excipient compatible with most drugs. Direct compression is a…
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Easy Tableting with Natural Disintegrants
Evaluation of a new disintegrant mixture from natural resources
Introduction
Tablet disintegration is most often required to divide a tablet into suitably small sub-units that facilitate achievement of the desired drug dissolution rate. While semi-synthetic or synthetic super-disintegrants are…
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Effects of omitting titanium dioxide from the film coating of a pharmaceutical tablet
An industrial case study of attempting to comply with EU regulation 2022/63
Recently, concerns have been raised about the safety of titanium dioxide (TiO2), a commonly used component of pharmaceutical film coatings. The European Union has recently prohibited the application of this material in the…
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Tableting behavior of freeze and spray-dried excipients in pharmaceutical formulations
Most of biopharmaceuticals, in their liquid form, are prone to instabilities during storage. In order to improve their stability, lyophilization is the most commonly used drying technique in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, certain applications of biopharmaceutical products can be…
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Utilization and Evaluation of Rice Bran and Rice Bran Wax as a Tablet Lubricant
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The rice bran and rice bran wax of the KJ CMU107 rice strain were investigated as potential tablet lubricants in a directly compressed tablet formulation. Stabilized full-fatted rice bran (sFFRB), stabilized defatted rice bran (sDFRB), and rice bran wax (RBW) extracted and purified from…
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3D Printing Direct Powder Extrusion in the Production of Drug Delivery Systems: State of the Art and…
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The production of tailored, on-demand drug delivery systems has gained attention in pharmaceutical development over the last few years, thanks to the application of 3D printing technology in the pharmaceutical field. Recently, direct powder extrusion (DPE) has emerged among the…
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The challenge of downstream processing of spray dried amorphous solid dispersions into minitablets…
Poorly water-soluble drugs present a significant challenge in the development of oral solid dosage forms (OSDs). In formulation development the appropriate use of excipients to adjust solubility, and the choice of manufacturing method and pharmaceutical processes to obtain a dosage form to meet the…
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UV–VIS imaging-based investigation of API concentration fluctuation caused by the sticking behaviour…
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Surface powder sticking in pharmaceutical mixing vessels poses a risk to the uniformity and quality of drug formulations. This study explores methods for evaluating the amount of pharmaceutical powder mixtures adhering to the metallic surfaces. Binary powder blends consisting of…
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