The Influence of Pregelatinized Starch Disintegrants on Interacting Variables that Act on Disintegrant Properties

August 2, 2003

Gbenga Alebiowu, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the department of pharmaceutics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Technology-08-02-2003, Volume 27, Issue 8

This study evaluates the quantitative effects of the nature and concentrations of disintegrants and a tablet's relative density on disintegrant properties such as disintegration time and the crushing strength-friability/disintegration time ratio.