Abstarct: This study was carried out to compare the binding effects of rice and wheat starches with that of the official starch; maize starch BP. Granule properties such as angle of repose, moisture content, bulk and tapped densities, Hausner’s ratio, Carr’s index and tablet properties which included weight uniformity, friability, disintegration times, and dissolution rates using standard metho...

An oral solid dosage form should ideally disperse into the primary particles from which it was prepared. Tablets and capsules which need rapid disintegration, the inclusion of the right disintegrant is a prerequisite for optimal bioavailability. Superdisintegrants are used to improve the efficacy of solid dosage forms. This is achieved by decreasing the disintegration time which in turn enhance...

The present study was aimed towards the formulation and in vitro evaluation of orodispersible tablets by direct compression method using Risperidone as a model drug to enhance patient compliance. Orodispersible tablet of Risperidone was prepared by masking the bitter taste by cetyl alcohol using different ratios of drug with cetyl alcohol (2:1). Here crosspovidone and sodium starch glycolate in...

Measles virus was found to grow in L cells, without producing cytopathic effects. The growth curve experiments revealed two phases of infection, viz., the early logarithmic multiplication and the later persistent state of infection. Studies on viral penetration and uncoating (or disintegration) demonstrated the relatively low efficiencies in both reactions. Release of the progeny viruses was al...

The paper aims to look at those community-organizing phenomena that provided alternatives to officially supported, mandatory youth activities and played a vital role in the everyday life of young people in socialist Hungary in the 1970s and 80s. The urban folk dance and music revival, the so-called táncház (dance house) movement, is highlighted. The authors argue that the dance house as a subcu...

Oral dispersible tablets (ODTs) are patient friendly dosage form that rapidly disintegrate or dispersed in mouth without the need of water. In the present investigation eight ODT formulations of zidovudine, an antiretroviral drug, were prepared using different superdisintegrants viz. Crospovidone (PPXL), Crosscarmellose sodium (Ac-di-sol) and sodium starch glycollate by direct compression metho...