Polacrilin Potassium
Excipient (pharmacologically inactive substance)
What is it?
Polacrilin potassium is an ion exchange resin used in oral pharmaceutical formulations as a tablet disintegrant. It is a weakly acidic cation exchange resin. Chemically, it is a partial potassium salt of a copolymer of methacrylic acid with divinyl benzene. Physically, ion exchange resins are small plastic beads with a diameter of roughly 0.6 millimeters. [1]
[1] Bele MH, et al. Effect of Polacrilin Potassium as Disintegrant on Bioavailability of Diclofenac Potassium in Tablets : a Technical Note. AAPS PharmSciTech. 2012 Sep; 13(3): 756–59. Accessed February 27, 2015 at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3429670/
Top Medications with this excipient
- Lamotrigine (Chewable, Dispersible) 5 mg (Aurobindo Pharma)
- Lorazepam 1 mg (Watson Laboratories, Inc.)
- Lorazepam 0.5 mg (Watson Laboratories, Inc.)
- Lorazepam 1 mg (Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Lorazepam 0.5 mg (Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Lorazepam 2 mg (Watson Pharmaceuticals)
- Lorazepam 1 mg (Major Pharmaceuticals Inc)
- Lorazepam 1 mg (Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Lorazepam 0.5 mg (Major Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Loxapine Succinate 5 mg (Watson Laboratories, Inc.)
- Loxapine Succinate 10 mg (Watson Laboratories, Inc.)
- Loxapine Succinate 50 mg (Watson Laboratories, Inc.)
- Loxapine Succinate 5 mg (base) (Lannett Company, Inc.)
- Loxapine Succinate 25 mg (base) (Lannett Company, Inc.)
- Loxapine Succinate 25 mg (Watson Laboratories, Inc.)
- Loxitane 5 mg (Watson Pharmaceuticals)
- Oxaprozin 600 mg (Eon)
- Risperidone (Orally Disintegrating) 1 mg (Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Inc.)
- Risperidone (Orally Disintegrating) 2 mg (Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Inc.)
- Trandolapril 1 mg (Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
