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        <journal-title>American Journal of PharmTech Research</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">AJPTR</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2249-3387</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AJPTR022132</article-id>
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        <article-title>Mini - Tablets Technology: An Overview</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>hadi</surname>
            <given-names>Mohd Abdul</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rao</surname>
            <given-names>N. G. Raghavendra</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Firangi</surname>
            <given-names>Sunil</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Dept of Pharmaceutics, Bhasker College of Pharmacy, R.R District, Hyderabad - 501512, Andhra Pradesh, India.</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Dept of Pharmaceutics, Luqman College of Pharmacy, Gulbarga - 585102, Karnataka, India</aff>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2012-04-01">
        <month>04</month>
        <day>01</day>
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <abstract>
        <p>It is well known that solid oral dosage forms, particularly tablets, are the most acceptable form of delivering medication. However, some new variations are beginning to emerge such as mini-tablets, which offer formulation flexibility. A multifunctional and multiple unit system for oral use are developed by filling versatile mini-tablets in a hard capsule. Multipulsatile DDS, site-specific DDS, zero-order DDS, slow/quick DDS, and quick/ slow DDS are designed in different ways and are investigated. Mini-tablets are small tablets with a diameter typically equal to or less than 3 mm that are typically filled into a capsule, or occasionally, further compressed into larger tablets. It is possible to incorporate many different mini-tablets, each one formulated individually and programmed to release drug at different sites within the gastrointestinal track, into one capsule. These combinations may include immediate release, delayed release, and/or controlled release mini-tablets. It is also possible to incorporate mini-tablets of different drugs to treat concurrent diseases or combinations of drugs to improve overall therapeutic outcome, while delivering distinct release rates of each according to disease requirements. Mini-tablets combine the advantages of multiparticulate dosage forms with the established manufacturing techniques of tableting. Additional benefits of mini-tablets include excellent size uniformity, regular shape and a smooth surface, thereby offering an excellent substrate for coating with modified release polymeric systems. From this, study it can be concluded that, granules-mini-tablets filled in HPMC capsule systems and coated mini-tablet-in-HPMC capsule system sulphate shows both sustained release as well as immediate release may improve the bioavailability and efficacy of any drugs. Keywords: Mini-tablets, immediate-release, delayed-release, controlled-release, multiparticulate dosage forms.</p>
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        <kwd>multiparticulate dosage forms.</kwd>
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