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/
Further information
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Top Medications with this excipient
- Chateal ethinyl estradiol 0.03 mg / levonorgestrel 0.15 mg
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- Lorazepam 1 mg
- Lorazepam 0.5 mg
- Lorazepam 1 mg
- Lorazepam 0.5 mg
- Lorazepam 2 mg
- Lorazepam 1 mg
- Lorazepam 1 mg
- Lorazepam 0.5 mg
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- Loxapine Succinate 25 mg
- Marlissa ethinyl estradiol 0.03 mg / levonorgestrel 0.15 mg
- Ondansetron Hydrochloride (Orally Disintegrating) 4 mg
- Risperidone (Orally Disintegrating) 1 mg
- Tilia Fe ethinyl estradiol 0.02 mg / norethindrone acetate 1 mg
- Trandolapril 1 mg
- Zolmitriptan (Orally Disintegrating) 2.5 mg
