Agricultural residues.
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Agricultural Residues as Pharmaceutical Excipient
Abstract: Excipients development has become a core area of research in pharmaceutical drug delivery. Agricultural residues and natural sources represent a potential source of inexpensive pharmaceutical excipients. Pharmaceutical excipients have vital roles in drug formulations and dosage forms and are used as thickeners, gelling, bulking and water retention agents, fillers, binders, disintegrants, lubricant and/or glidant, flavours and sweeteners. Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC), a very important directly compressible excipient widely used in pharmaceutical …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Pharmaceutical Science · Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2014 · pp. 1–7 Read article