GRP-001 1St ESNEE Excipient Monograph: Information Needed to Formulate, Prepare and Prescribe Medicines For Neonates Containing Propylene Glycol as an Excipient

Background review for sodium laurilsulfate used as an excipient

Potential aspects of chitosan as pharmaceutical excipient.

Interest in use of the polysaccharide chitosan as a pharmaceutical excipient by different dose routes and for a number of applications is not new but it still does not appear to be present in any marketed drugs. Also a novel excipient in a new formulation requires a lot of safety consideration. Published literature showed that chitosan has low oral toxicity and prior human exposure has occurred...

Okra Gum as a Pharmaceutical Excipient

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New allergy drug excipient allergy

Background Because of its rarity, drug excipients allergy is often unsuspected by the doctors. Some times the active drug is blamed and discontinued unnecessarily when the real culprit is drug excipients. This was suspected when patients reported exacerbation of urticaria with anti histaminic which are actually used for treating urticaria. After suspecting drug excipient as the cause of allergy.

Modified Starch and Its Potentials as Excipient in Pharmaceutical Formulations

These are additives used to convert pharmacologically active compounds into pharmaceutical dosage forms suitable for administration to patients [1]. Although excipients are the non-active ingredients, they are essential in the successful production of acceptable solid dosage forms such as tablets and powders. For example, the lack of filling materials would make it exceedingly challenging, if n...