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Pharmaceutics
April 2024
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Eberhard Karls University, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is a rather new technology in the production of personalized dosage forms. The melting and printing of polymer-active pharmaceutical ingredient (API)-mixtures can be used to produce oral dosage forms with different dosage as well as release behavior. This process is utilized to increase the bioavailability of pharmaceutically relevant active ingredients that are poorly soluble in physiological medium by transforming them into solid amorphous dispersions (ASD).
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July 2008
Department of Surgery, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Background And Aims: Many patients with faecal incontinence (FI) are prescribed a constipating agent concurrently with either fibre supplementation or a low-residue diet. Clinician opinion varies as to which initial approach is best. This study compared these treatments in routine clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLoperamide (R 18 553) was compared with placebo in a double-blind crossover study of 21 patients with chronic diarrhoea caused by ileocolic disease or resection. Eighteen patients completed the trial. At a median daily dose of 6 mg the new antidiarrhoeal preparation was found to be superior to placebo in controlling chronic diarrhoea.
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