Crushing strength, disintegration time and weight variation of tablets compressed from three Avicel® PH grades and their mixtures

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 315-322

  Lahdenpää, Esa ^a,c   Niskanen, Mervi ^b   Yliruusi, Jouko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ORION CORPORATION   (Finland)

^c NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Avicel PH grades; Compression force; Crushing strength; Disintegration time; Mixture design; Optimization; Particle size; Weight variation

Indexed keywords

MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE;

ARTICLE; CRUSHING STRENGTH; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MIXTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; TABLET COMPRESSION; TABLET DISINTEGRATION TIME;

EID: 0031402049     PISSN: 09396411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0939-6411(97)00053-2     Document Type: Article

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