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Solubility enhancement – The Interview with Fuji Chemical
Fuji Chemical Industries specializes in producing porous spray-dried excipients for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical markets. They spray-dry their excipients to produce free-flowing granules and unique internal structures that enhance compressibility and functionality. These structures are ideal…
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Oil adsorption – The Interview with Fuji Chemical
Fuji Chemical Industries specializes in producing porous spray-dried excipients for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical markets. They spray-dry their excipients to produce free-flowing granules and unique internal structures that enhance compressibility and functionality. These structures are ideal…
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Polysaccharide and polypeptide based injectable thermo-sensitive hydrogels for local biomedical…
Injectable thermo-responsive hydrogels have been studied for various biomedical applications including; drug delivery, cell encapsulation, and tissue repairing. There are various natural and synthetic polymers which exhibit homogenous injectable solution at ambient temperature and form a gel in…
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3D printed chitosan dressing crosslinked with genipin for potential healing of chronic wounds
Recently, various additive manufacturing (3D printing) approaches have been employed to fabricate dressings such as film scaffolds that possess well-defined architecture and orientation at the micro level. In this study, crosslinked chitosan (CH) based film matrices were prepared using 3D printing…
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Current Developments in Excipient Science – Implication of Quantitative Selection of Each…
Implication of Quantitative Selection of Each Excipient in Product Development
Excipients’ role in designing different dosage forms does not require any introduction. These are the additives that are added to the formulation along with pharmacologically active substance. The main purpose of adding…
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The role of sodium alginate on the supersaturation state of the poorly soluble drug chlorthalidone
Solid dispersions (SDs) of chlorthalidone (CTD) are promising systems to enhance drug dissolution rate, generate and maintain drug supersaturation levels in gastrointestinal fluids. In this work, SDs of CTD were prepared by spray drying using sodium alginate (SA) as carrier. Six formulations were…
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Personalized orodispersible films by hot melt ram extrusion 3D printing
13. September 2018
This work demonstrates the feasibility of the extemporaneous preparation of maltodextrins orodispersible films (ODF) by hot-melt ram-extrusion 3D printing. This method consists of three simple technological operations which can be also implemented in a pharmacy setting. First,…
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A Novel Approach for Dry Powder Coating of Pellets with Ethylcellulose
19. February 2018 The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy and the capability of a novel ethylcellulose-based dry-coating system to obtain prolonged and stable release profiles of caffeine-loaded pellets. Lauric and…
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Lactose oleate as new biocompatible surfactant for pharmaceutical applications
26. December 2017 Abstract Sugar fatty acid esters are an interesting class of non-ionic, biocompatible and biodegradable sugar-based surfactants, recently emerged as a valid alternative to the traditional commonly employed…
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Erythritol as sweetener?
06. December 2017 Abstract Erythritol is a naturally abundant sweetener gaining more and more importance especially within the food industry. It is widely used as sweetener in calorie-reduced food, candies, or bakery products.…
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