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“The purpose of this study was to establish a relationship between the material properties

of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and its behavior during high-shear wet granulation. Using several actives and excipients as material probes, the influence of aqueous solubility, wettability, water holding capacity, mean and width of the particle size distribution, and surface area was examined. The effect of these variables on the processibility and performance of the granulations was evaluated by monitoring such responses as granule growth, compactability and flow changes upon wet granulation. The prominent IGF-1R inhibitor findings from this study include: (a) controlled growth is highest in readily wettable APIs with low surface area, (b) uncontrolled growth is high in APIs of high solubility and low water holding capacity, (c) poly-disperse granulations are produced from APIs of high contact angle and surface area, (d) improvement in compactability is high in APIs with large surface area and broader size distributions and (e) flow enhancement as a result of wet granulation is highest in APIs of large size distributions. These

results are physically interpreted in this manuscript based on the prevailing wet granulation theories. Findings from this study are useful in mapping a new material to predict its performance in a high-shear wet granulation process. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.”
“The mineral kulanite BaFe2Al2(PO4)(3)(OH)(3),

a barium iron aluminum phosphate, has been studied by using a combination of electron microscopy and vibrational spectroscopy. Scanning electron microscopy with EDX shows the mineral is homogenous with no other MAPK Inhibitor Library phases present. The Raman spectrum is dominated by an intense band at 1022 cm(-1) assigned to the PO43- nu(1) symmetric stretching mode. Low intensity Raman bands at 1076, 1110, 1146, 1182 cm(-1) are attributed to the PO43- nu(3) antisymmetric stretching vibrations. The infrared spectrum shows a complex spectral profile with overlapping bands. Multiple phosphate bending vibrations supports the concept of a reduction in symmetry of the phosphate anion. Raman spectrum at 3211, 3513 and 3533 cm(-1) are assigned to the Staurosporine mouse stretching vibrations of the OH units. Vibrational spectroscopy enables aspects on the molecular structure of kulanite to be assessed. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.”
“An effective pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) micropropagation system was developed involving rapid axillary bud proliferation and ex vitro rooting. The highest shoot proliferation frequency was obtained from nodal explants cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) basal salts containing Gamborg (B(5)) vitamins and supplemented with 4 mg l(-1) 6-benzyladenine (BA). The addition of 2 mg l(-1) meta-topolin (mT) generated an optimal number of shoots with suitable morphological features, while kinetin (KIN) was found to be unsuitable for pistachio shoot proliferation.