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Effect of lactose pseudopolymorphic transition on the aerosolization performance of drug/carrier mixtures

Della Bella, Andrea ; Müller, Michele ; Danani, Andrea ; Soldati, Luciano ; Bettini, Ruggero

In: Pharmaceutics, 2019, vol. 11, no. 11, p. 576

Physico-chemical properties of lactose are key factors in adhesive mixtures used as dry powder inhaler (DPI). Despite the abundant literature on this topic, the effect of the polymorphism and pseudo-polymorphism of lactose has been seldom investigated and discussed although often lactose used in DPI is subjected to unit operations, which may alter its solid-state properties. Here, we studied...