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What are Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API)?
What are Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API)?
- Drugs used to prevent physiological conditions
- Finished dosage forms containing API
- Combination of API and excipients
- Biologically active components of drugs (correct)
What are Placebos?
What are Placebos?
- Drugs used to prevent physiological conditions
- Finished dosage forms containing API
- Biologically active components of drugs
- Have no API but can affect patients due to belief (correct)
What is Comminution?
What is Comminution?
- A type of drug product
- A method of administering drugs
- A method of particle size reduction used in the production of powders (correct)
- A type of dosage form
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- Drugs are used to treat, cure, prevent or mitigate physiological conditions.
- Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) are the biologically active components of drugs.
- Dosage Form is the combination of API and excipients.
- Drug Products are finished dosage forms containing API.
- Placebos have no API but can affect patients due to belief.
- DFs are formulated to improve taste, stability, efficacy, solubility, and administration ease.
- Solid dosage forms include powders, which can be internal or external use.
- Advantages of powders include flexibility, good chemical stability, and floating.
- Disadvantages of powders include caking potential, unpleasant taste, and unsuitability for hygroscopic or deliquescent substances.
- Comminution is a manual method of particle size reduction used in the production of powders.
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