Pharmaceutical industry

Soil is not required for plants

Hello bloggers,This week i am here with a new topic HYDROPONICS...these days with the increasing population and pollution we are rarely finding plants and trees any where...Not knowing whether to feel bad that we dont even have place for growing greenary or feel happy that the technology is developing.

SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS:AN INTRO

Supercritical fluid is defined as a substance at a temperature and pressure above its critical point where the liquid and gas phases do not exist. (1)

Critical point: The point of highest temperature and pressure at which the substance can exist as gas and liquid in equilibrium. (2) It can diffuse through solids like gases and dissolves materials like liquids. (1)

SUPERCRITICAL FLUID CHROMATOGRAPHY:AN INTRO

Supercritical fluid chromatography is a chromatographic technique that uses supercritical fluids as the mobile phase It has few advantages over gas chromagraphy that is gas chromatography is suitable only for volatile solvents as mobile phase.

Solubility with the capability to use nonselect gas phase detector is the major advantage of supercritical fluid chromatography(SFC).

China CPU Challengers May Topics

The Month of April has been one of the tough month for most of us, due to a personal School Schedule. Therefore, we couldn't cover all the topic announced. However, this Month of May, we will discuss on: -Naltrexone -Tramadol -Asthma -Crohn's Disease -Gene Therapy and cancer -Modern Pharmacy Vs Traditional Pharmacy -Mechanized nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Part Two

PACKING MATERIALS FOR PARENTERALS -GLASS

Glass is one of the old and cheapest materials using for the packing of various types of pharmaceutical formuations, especially for the parenteral formulations. It has been used for over 6000 years. Containers for parenteral formulations are made are made as far as possible from the materials that are sufficiently transparent and to permit the visual inspection of the contents.

FLUIDIZATION

FLUIDIZATION

When gas is introduced from the bottom of bed of solid particles, the gas moves upwards and move through the spaces between the solid particles. If the velocity of gas is low then the aerodynamic drag on the particles is also low and the solid bed will be in a fixed state.

TAMARIND SEED POLYSACCHARIDE:-COLON SPECIFIC PROPERTIES

TAMARIND SEED POLYSACCHARIDE:-COLON SPECIFIC PROPERTIES

Tamarind seed polysaccharide (TSP) is a biodegradable polysaccharide extracted from Tamarind seeds (Tamarandus indica Linn. Family; Leguminosae) called as TSP has been found to have a wide application in pharmaceutical industry1.

Validation Part -II

Dear Bloggers, I am back again, to you all with my second blog for this month. After going through basics of validation in my first blog (validation Part-I), now I am going to share about: - Types of Validation - Phases of Validation - Equipment Validation - Strategy for Validation -Approaches to Validation Types of Validation Prospective Validation:

Scale up and post approval changes(SUPAC)

This is a guidance document that comes under Chemistry manufacturing and controls section of USFDA. During formulation development, initially, development process is carried out in small batch sizes generally in the multiples of 10X i.e., small scale or lab scale. The batch size is then increased to multiples of 100X i.e., medium scale or pilot scale. In production scale or large scale, manufacturing is carried out in large numbers usually multiples of 1000X depending upon the requirement.

Preclinical Studies in Drug Development

Hi Friends, my first blog for this month is regarding Preclinical studies in Drug development. After its discovery in the laboratory every New Chemical Entity NCE)should face a series of challenges/trials to make its way into the market successfully. The entire drug development process can be divided into the following steps: [1] 1. Preclinical Studies/Trials

ICH guideline Q8(R2) – Pharmaceutical development

This guideline suggests looking into the quality of drug product during development stage itself. It says that Quality should be built into the product design rather than testing into products1 during the initial stages of development, all the variables that may likely effect the production or manufacturing process should be completely studied. Those critical variables that are found to be affecting the quality of product must be properly controlled and monitored during the process.

TABLET.. AN UNIQUE DOSAGE FORM

According to IP "tablets are solid dosage forms each containing a unit dose of one or more ingredients".(1) 90%of the drugs thar are administered to produce systemic effect are through oral dosage forms. The advantage of the tablets and the capsules over liquid dosage forms includes elixirs, syrups,solutions is that the exact dose of the drug can be given to the patient.(2)

Orally disintegrating tablets using multiparticulates

Orally disintegrating tablets also called as fast dissolving or mouth dissolving tablets are such kind of dosage forms which when placed in mouth disintegrates rapidly in a matter of seconds(1). They are different from lozenges or buccal tablets which require more than a minute to get dissolved in mouth(1). Any dosage form or a novel drug delivery system which improves patient compliance is of great interest to scientists in which orally disintegrating tablets stands first among them.