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Exploration of excipients’ functions in drug products, highlighting their significance in usability and stability.
Excipients are often discussed as inactive ingredients, implying to those unfamiliar with pharmaceutical development that their function is merely to accompany the active ingredient. It is less well known that many successful drug products depend on purpose-built excipient functions that directly control chemical stability, physical form, processability, solubility, delivery, and overall clinical usability
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