High-Quality Maize Starch for Pharmaceutical Applications
The essential excipient for robust tablet and capsule formulations, ensuring efficacy and stability.
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Maize Starch
This pharmaceutical-grade maize starch serves as a fundamental excipient in oral preparations, crucially supporting the development of effective and stable dosage forms. Its multifaceted roles as a diluent, disintegrant, and binder are vital for achieving optimal tablet and capsule performance.
- Explore the extensive pharmaceutical grade maize starch applications, understanding how it enhances drug formulations.
- Discover the specific function of maize starch as a tablet binder, ensuring the structural integrity of solid dosage forms.
- Learn about the corn starch disintegrant function, critical for rapid drug release in the gastrointestinal tract.
- Investigate the multiple medicinal corn starch uses, from increasing bulk to aiding in granulation processes.
Key Advantages
Versatile Functionality
Leverage the power of pharma excipient maize starch, expertly functioning as a diluent to increase formulation bulk, a disintegrant for timely drug release, and a binder for tablet cohesion.
Compliance & Quality
Ensure your products meet rigorous standards by utilizing maize starch that complies with USP, BP, EP, and CP pharmacopeial specifications for your pharmaceutical needs.
Cost-Effectiveness & Compressibility
Benefit from the low cost and excellent compressibility of maize starch, making it an economically viable and high-performing choice for large-scale drug manufacturing.
Key Applications
Tablet Diluent
Utilize maize starch as a diluent in tablets and capsules to increase bulk, particularly for low-dose medications, and facilitate easier formation and handling.
Tablet Disintegrant
Employ its disintegrant properties to promote rapid tablet breakdown in the GI tract, ensuring efficient drug release and absorption, a key aspect for immediate-release formulations.
Tablet Binder
Formulate starch paste from this maize starch to act as an effective binder in wet granulation, enhancing powder cohesion and improving overall tablet compressibility.
Other Pharmaceutical Uses
Explore its utility as a dusting powder for medical instruments, a carrier for pellets and granules, and even in wound dressings for exudate absorption.