It isessential to understand excipients’ critical material attributes. A QbDstrategy that includes historical data analysis and experimental work has beenused in functional excipients such as Hypromellose (HPMC) develop thisunderstanding. The use of multivariate helped identify excipientvariability the support it could provide improve final product robustness.

An in vivo investigation of paracetamol availability was carried out on eight healthy volunteers, comparing two paracetamol suppository formulations prepared using two different gliceride bases, a fast drug-releasing one and a slow drug-releasing one, i.e. Witepsol H15 and W35, respectively. The formulations were selected on the basis of a previous in vitro drug release study, which showed that...

Liquid-assisted grinding allows the rapid, waste-free and one-pot synthesis of a variety of magnesium drug derivatives directly from the excipient MgO; such reactivity is relevant for the behaviour of ibuprofen formulations involving MgO and can be used for oxide-based mechanosynthesis of metal-organic salts, discrete complexes and carboxylate clusters involving magnesium and pharmaceutically a...

Hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) is used as a neutral excipient in microbicides used against sexually transmitted pathogens. However, HEC inhibits the infection of cervical epithelial cells by Chlamydia trachomatis at pH 5 in a concentration-dependent manner. At pH 7, infection is inversely dependent on the concentration of HEC, possibly due to pH-dependent calcium sequestration.

In this work, the effect of cellulosic polymer and chemical structure of salicylic acid and its various esters on their release has been analysed. The release of different drugs in distinct types of vehicles, cetyl excipient, polyethylene glycol and Carbopol gel was also studied.  2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.