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Poor solubility of many drugs, with ensuing low bioavailability, is a big challenge in pharmaceutical development. Nanosuspensions have emerged as a platform approach for long-acting injectables and solid dosages that enhance drug bioavailability. De...

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Developing a new drug costs approximately one to three billion dollars and takes around ten years; however, this process has only a ten percent success rate. To address this issue, new technologies that combine artificial intelligence (AI) and quantu...

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A Precipitation-Based Process to Generate a Solid Formulation of a Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody: An Alternative to Lyophilization

  • Athanas A. Koynov,
  • Wei Lin,
  • Jameson R. Bothe,
  • Luke Schenck,
  • Bibek Parajuli,
  • Zhao Li,
  • Richard Ruzanski,
  • Natalie Hoffman,
  • Derek Frank and
  • Zachary VanAernum

Lyophilization, or freeze-drying, is the default technique for the manufacture of solid-state formulations of therapeutic proteins. This established method offers several advantages, including improved product stability by minimizing chemical degrada...

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Preparation of Indomethacin Co-Crystals; Comparison of XRD, THz, and FT-IR Spectral Analyses; and Enhancement of Solubility

  • Chih-Chin Hsu,
  • Chih-Tse Hung,
  • Ya-Hsuan Lin,
  • Hua-Jeng Tsai,
  • Po-Chih Hu,
  • Yi-Ping Lin,
  • Jyh-Chern Chen,
  • Shen-Fu Hsu and
  • Hsyue-Jen Hsieh

Background: The aqueous solubility of indomethacin, a poorly water-soluble anti-inflammatory drug, was enhanced by co-crystallization with co-formers. The co-crystals were characterized and compared by an X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, terahertz (...

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Celecoxib (CEL), a nonsteroidal anti-inflammation drug (NSAID), is categorized as a Class II drug (low solubility, high permeability) in the Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS). The aim of this study is to develop a novel formulation of CEL...

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Lidocaine plays a significant role in postoperative analgesia by effectively reducing pain. However, due to its short half-life, it is challenging for lidocaine to achieve the desired duration of analgesia in clinical settings. Drug delivery systems...

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Background: Off-label nebulization of tranexamic acid (TXA) solution is common practice for the treatment of hemoptysis. However, data regarding nebulization protocols, resulting aerodynamic parameters of the generated aerosol, and corresponding biop...

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Tablet surface defects are typically controlled by visual inspection in the pharmaceutical industry. This is an insufficient response variable for knowledge-based formulation and process development, and it results in rather limited robustness of the...