Download or read book Polyvinylpyrrolidone Excipients for Pharmaceuticals written by Volker Bühler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes the properties, analytical methods and the applications of different polyvinylpyrrolidone excipients (povidone, crospovidone, copovidone etc.) for use in pharmaceutical preparations. This group of excipients is one of the most important excipients used in modern technology to produce drugs. The book is intended for all persons working in the research, development and quality control of drugs. It gives a survey of all applications in solid, liquid and semisolid dosage forms including many drug formulation examples and more than 600 references to the literature.