Orally fast disintegrating tablets: Developments, technologies, taste-masking and clinical studies

Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 433-475

  Fu, Yourong ^a   Yang, Shicheng ^a   Jeong, Seong Hoon ^a   Kimura, Susumu ^a   Park, Kinam ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical studies; Disintegration time; Fast disintegrating; Fast dissolving; Fast melting; Taste masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG PACKAGING; DRUG SOLUBILITY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DYSPHAGIA; FREEZE DRYING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SPRAY DRYING; TABLET DISINTEGRATION TIME; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHARMACEUTICS; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY; TABLET; TASTE;

CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; HUMANS; SOLUBILITY; TABLETS; TASTE; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 18744386141     PISSN: 07434863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevTherDrugCarrierSyst.v21.i6.10     Document Type: Article

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