Effects of high-shear granulation on granulate homogeneity

Pharmaceutical Development and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 297-303

  Vromans, Herman ^a   Poels Janssen, Harriette G M ^a   Egermann, Herbert ^b  

^a nv Organon ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Capillary forces; Content uniformity; High shear granulation; Homogeneity; Particle size effects; Porosity of granulations

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTOSE; HYDROXYPROPYLCELLULOSE; STARCH; STEROID HORMONE;

ARTICLE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG GRANULATION; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG MIXTURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; POWDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ALGORITHMS; DRUG COMPOUNDING; EXCIPIENTS; HORMONES; PARTICLE SIZE; POWDERS; STEROIDS;

EID: 0032783419     PISSN: 10837450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/PDT-100101365     Document Type: Article

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