Pullulan: an advantageous natural polysaccharide excipient to formulate tablets of alendronate-loaded microparticles
This work reports the preparation of tablets by direct compression of sodium alendronate-loaded microparticles, using pullulan as filler. The tableting properties of pullulan were compared with those of microcrystalline cellulose and lactose. Pullulan tablets showed low variations in average weight,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502015000100027&lng=en&tlng=en |