Thursday, November 7, 2024

Pharmaceutical Technology

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Solid Dosage forms: Capsules

Capsules are solid preparations in which drug substance(s) and/or excipients are enclosed in either a soft or hard soluble shell.  The shell is normally made…
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Solid Dosage forms: Capsules

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Packaging of Effervescent Tablets

Effervescent tablets are solid pharmaceutical dosage forms designed to break in contact with liquid such as water or juice, often causing the tablet to dissolve…
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Manufacture of Effervescent Tablets

The manufacture of effervescent tablets is similar in many ways to that of conventional granules or tablets, although due to the hygroscopicity and potential onset…
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Effervescent Tablets

Effervescent tablets are uncoated tablets generally containing acid substances and carbonates or hydrogen carbonates, which react rapidly in the presence of water to release carbon…
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Formulation, Manufacture and Evaluation of Effervescent Tablets

Effervescent tablets are uncoated tablet preparations containing mixtures of medicinal agents with acid substances and carbonates or hydrogen carbonates, which react rapidly in the presence…
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Medicated Chewing Gum

Medicated Chewing Gums are solid, single-dose preparations that contain one or more active ingredients that are released by chewing. This drug delivery system provides is…
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Composition of Medicated Chewing Gum

Medicated Chewing Gum (MCG) is a novel drug delivery system containing masticatory gum base with pharmacologically active ingredient(s) and intended to use for local treatment…
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Medicated chewing gum

Formulation, Manufacture and Evaluation of Medicated Chewing Gum

Medicated chewing gums (MCGs) are solid or semi-solid, single-dose preparations with a base consisting mainly of tasteless masticatory gums that are intended to be chewed…
Medicated chewing gum
Quality Control Tests for Chewable Tablets

Quality Control and Evaluation Parameters for Chewable Tablets

Quality control (QC) is a part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements. It refers to the set of checks or tests carried out…
Quality Control Tests for Chewable Tablets
Chewable tablet

Formulation, Manufacture and Evaluation of Chewable tablets

Chewable tablets are tablets intended to be chewed in the mouth prior to swallowing. They represent the largest market segment of the chewable dosage forms,…
Chewable tablet
Enteric coating

Enteric Coating: An Overview

An enteric coating, also known as gastro-resistant coating is a barrier applied to oral medication that controls the location in the digestive tract where it…
Enteric coating
Defects in film coating process

Common Defects in Film Coating Process: Causes and Possible Solutions

Polymeric film coating, in the formal sense, is a process that has been extensively used in pharmaceutical companies for over half a century. In spite…
Defects in film coating process
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Film Coating Process: Polymers Used in Immediate-Release Film Coating

Coating is a process by which an essentially dry outer layer of coating material is applied to the surface of a dosage form in order…
Film coating: Polymers used in immediate release film coating
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Film Coating

Film coating is generally referred to as a process by which a thin, continuous, solid polymer layer is applied to the surface of a dosage…
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Film coating of pharmaceutical dosage forms

Tablet Coating Process: Film Coating

Film coating is a contemporary and widely used process for coating oral solid dosage forms in the pharmaceutical industry. It is a process that draws…
Film coating of pharmaceutical dosage forms
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Sugar Coating Defects, Causes, and Remedies

In any coating process, a variety of problems may be encountered. Often such problems may be related to formulation issues that have been compounded by…
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Steps Involved In Sugar Coating

The sugar coating process involves building up layers of coating material on the tablet cores by repetitively applying a coating solution or suspension and drying…
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Sugar coating of pharmaceutical dosage form

Tablet Coating Process: Sugar Coating

Sugar coating has long been the traditional method of coating pharmaceutical dosage forms. The process has its origin in the confectionery industry and has been…
Sugar coating of pharmaceutical dosage form
Tablet Coating techniques: Concepts and recent trends

Tablet Coating Process: Concepts and Advancements

Tablet coating is a process by which an essentially dry, outer layer of coating material is applied to the surface of a dosage form in…
Tablet Coating techniques: Concepts and recent trends
Quality Control tests for pharmaceutical tablets

Quality Control Tests for Tablets

Tablets are solid drug delivery system prepared by compressing a single dose of one or more active drug substance(s) with some additives/ pharmaceutical excipients. They…
Quality Control tests for pharmaceutical tablets
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