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ArticlePharmaceutics2023

Modelling the Evolution of Pore Structure during the Disintegration of Pharmaceutical Tablets.

Mithushan Soundaranathan, Mohammed Al-Sharabi, Thomas Sweijen, Prince Bawuah, J Axel Zeitler, S Majid Hassanizadeh, Kendal Pitt, Blair F Johnston, Daniel Markl

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Mithushan SoundaranathanStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, UK.
Mohammed Al-SharabiDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0AS, UK.
Thomas SweijenEnvironmental Hydrogeology Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Prince BawuahDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7688-0065
J Axel ZeitlerDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4958-0582
S Majid HassanizadehDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0AS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6473-9838
Kendal PittGlobal Supply Chain, GlaxoSmithKline, Ware SG12 0DE, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9796-4150
Blair F JohnstonStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, UK.
Daniel MarklStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, UK.

Funding

Centre for Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC) NADeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft EXC 2075- 390740016Scottish Funding Council NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pharmaceutical tablet disintegration is a critical process for dissolving and enabling the absorption of the drug substance into the blood stream. The tablet disintegration process consists of multiple connected and interdependent mechanisms: liquid penetration, swelling, dissolution, and break-up. One key dependence is the dynamic change of the pore space in a tablet caused by the swelling of particles while the tablet takes up liquid. This study analysed the changes in the pore structure during disintegration by coupling the discrete element method (DEM) with a single-particle swelling model and experimental liquid penetration data from terahertz-pulsed imaging (TPI). The coupled model is demonstrated and validated for pure microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) tablets across three porosities (10, 15, and 22%) and MCC with three different concentrations of croscarmellose sodium (CCS) (2, 5, and 8%

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discrete element methodpharmaceuticalpore sizeswellingtablet disintegration

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PMID36839812
PMCPMC9962276

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