Microstructural and drug release properties of oven-dried and of slowly or fast frozen freeze-dried MCC-Carbopol® pellets

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 236-245

  Gómez Carracedo, Ana ^a   Souto, Consuelo ^a   Martínez Pacheco, Ramón ^a   Concheiro, Angel ^a   Gómez Amoza, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extrusion spheronization; Freeze drying; Mercury porosimetry; Modified release; Pellets

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CARBOMER; KETOPROFEN; MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE; THEOPHYLLINE;

ARTICLE; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG RELEASE; FREEZE DRYING; PELLET EXTRUSION; POROSITY;

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CELLULOSE; DRUG COMPOUNDING; EXCIPIENTS; FREEZE DRYING; FREEZING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KETOPROFEN; LINEAR MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYVINYLS; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; THEOPHYLLINE; VISCOSITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 34250864479     PISSN: 09396411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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