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Generation of Alginate Microspheres for Biomedical Applications
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Generation of Alginate Microspheres for Biomedical Applications

Published on: August 12, 2012

Formulation development and evaluation of alginate microspheres of Ibuprofen

M Nagpal1, Dk Maheshwari, P Rakha

  • 1Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Patiala, Punjab, India.

Journal of Young Pharmacists : JYP
|April 24, 2012
PubMed

Keywords:
Factorial designmicrospheremultiple regressionparticle size analysisscanning electron microscopy

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