Taste masking of bitter drugs for pediatric dosage forms

American Pharmaceutical Review

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  McNally, Gerard ^a   Bunick, Frank ^a  

^a McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITTER TASTE; CHILD CARE; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; PALATABILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; REVIEW; TASTE PREFERENCE;

EID: 52449128526     PISSN: 10998012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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