Tensile strength and disintegration of tableted silicified microcrystalline cellulose: Influences of interparticle bonding

Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1489-1501

  Kachrimanis, Kyriakos ^a   Nikolakakis, Ioannis ^a   Malamataris, Stavros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compaction; Disintegration time; Excipients; Interparticle bonding; Moisture sorption; Powder technology; Silicified microcrystalline cellulose; Tableting; Tensile strength

Indexed keywords

EXCIPIENT; MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE; PROSOLV; SILICIFIED MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE; SILICON DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TABLET COMPRESSION; TABLET DISINTEGRATION; TABLET POROSITY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0038082482     PISSN: 00223549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jps.10403     Document Type: Article

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