Discovered in 1955, the excipient microcrystalline cellulose is the most commonly used binder on the pharmaceutical market. It’s popularity comes from its versatility and a huge range of applications. It can bulk, disintegrate, bind, and lubricate. It enhances stability and extends drug release. As a natural, fibre-rich component, it’s nontoxic and chewable. It’s also a favourite among dissolvable drug manufacturers. It’s carved a space for itself as an excipient in both the supplement industry and the potent drug delivery niche. Its scope is not limited to capsules and tablets. It’s used in medicated gels, as well.
Pharma Excipients
Microcrystalline Cellulose
Implementation of near-infrared spectroscopy and convolutional neural networks for predicting…
Monitoring the particle size distribution (PSD) is crucial for controlling product quality during fluidized bed granulation. This paper proposed a rapid analytical method that quantifies the D10, D50, and D90 values using a Convolutional Block Attention Module-Convolutional Neural Network (CBAM-CNN)…
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Overcome Challenges of Elastic Deformation with the Right Excipient – Case Study With…
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Developing a medicine in which the active ingredient has elastic deformation is always challenging, as elastic forces affect the compression capacity of the formulation, resulting in tablets with capping, low tablet breaking force and high friability. Finding an ideal formulation with…
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A strategy to optimize precompression pressure for tablet manufacturing based on in-die elastic…
A precompression pressure optimization strategy using in-die elastic recovery was developed to effectively address tablet lamination caused by air entrapment. This strategy involves exacerbating the air entrapment issue using high tableting speeds and main compaction pressures and collecting in-die…
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The Role of BARETab Nutra DS in Direct Tablet Compression Method
BARETab Nutra DS is a novel Co-Processed excipients which is a combination of three Pharmacopeial excipients made by Co-Processing Technology. BARETab Nutra DS contains Dibasic Calcium Phosphate Anhydrous (Filler), Microcrystalline Cellulose (Binder) and Crosscarmellose Sodium (Disintegrant).…
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Fabrication of a Controlled-Release Core-Shell Floating Tablet of Ketamine Hydrochloride Using a 3D…
In this study, a novel floating, controlled-release and core-shell oral tablet of ketamine hydrochloride (HCl) was produced using a dual extrusion by 3D printing method. A mixture of Soluplus® and Eudragit® RS-PO was extruded by a hot-melt extrusion (HME) nozzle at 150–160 °C to fabricate the tablet…
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The Effect of Formulation Variables on the Manufacturability of Clopidogrel Tablets via Fluidized…
Solid pharmaceutical formulations with class II active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) face dissolution challenges due to limited solubility, affecting in vivo behavior. Robust computational tools, via data mining, offer valuable insights into product performance, complementing traditional methods…
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Advanced analysis of disintegrating pharmaceutical compacts using deep learning-based segmentation…
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The mechanism governing pharmaceutical tablet disintegration is far from fully understood. Despite the importance of controlling a formulation's disintegration process to maximize the active pharmaceutical ingredient's bioavailability and ensure predictable and consistent release…
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A new insight into the mechanism of the tabletability flip phenomenon
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Tabletability is an outcome of interparticulate bonding area (BA) – bonding strength (BS) interplay, influenced by the mechanical properties, size and shape, surface energetics of the constituent particles, and compaction pressure. Typically, a more plastic active pharmaceutical…
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A systematic investigation of external lubrication of mini-tablets on a rotary tablet press with…
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External lubrication is an alternative to internal lubrication and its related detrimental effects on properties of tablets like tensile strength (TS). However, to date there are hardly any systematic investigations on external lubrication of mini-tablets on rotary tablet presses. Aim of…
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The Effect of Microcrystalline Cellulose–CaHPO4 Mixtures in Different Volume Ratios on the…
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Using microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) with plastic behaviour and calcium phosphate anhydrous (CaHPO4) with brittle behaviour under compaction is very popular in the pharmaceutical industry for achieving desirable structural–mechanical properties of tablet formulations. Thus, mixtures of…
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