Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology
SCOPUS
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

Co-processed Pharmaceutical Excipients – A Brief Review

  • Author:
  • Anuja Patil, VJ Kadam, KR Jadhav
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 50 to 57

Department of Pharmaceutics, Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Pharmacy, CBD Belapur, Sector-8, Navi-Mumbai-400 614, India

*Corresponding Author E-mail: anuja1311@rediffmail.com

Online published on 3 April, 2013.

Abstract

There is need of pharmaceutical industry for excipients with improvised properties to aid fast and cost effective development and processing. This need is due to limitations of existing excipients failing to comply with all the functionalities of an ideal excipient. Functional Synergy due to co-processing of excipients provides effective solution to address this need. Number of new coprocessed excipients have arrived in market which are expected to deliver new performance characteristics which will distinguish them from existing, well-accepted agents.

Keywords

novel coprocessed excipients, direct compression, modified release coprocessed excipients