Chitin and Chitosan as Direct Compression Excipients in Pharmaceutical Applications

Despite the numerous uses of chitin and chitosan as new functional materials of high potential in various fields, they are still behind several directly compressible excipients already dominating pharmaceutical applications. There are, however, new attempts to exploit chitin and chitosan in co-proce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Badwan, Adnan A., Rashid, Iyad, Al Omari, Mahmoud M.H., Darras, Fouad H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4377997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25810109
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md13031519
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Sumario:Despite the numerous uses of chitin and chitosan as new functional materials of high potential in various fields, they are still behind several directly compressible excipients already dominating pharmaceutical applications. There are, however, new attempts to exploit chitin and chitosan in co-processing techniques that provide a product with potential to act as a direct compression (DC) excipient. This review outlines the compression properties of chitin and chitosan in the context of DC pharmaceutical applications.

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