Sodium Starch Glycolate Type A Potato
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Excipient (pharmacologically inactive substance)
What is it?
Sodium starch glycolate type A potato is the sodium salt of carboxymethyl ether of starch from potato origin. Starch glycolates are also of rice, wheat or corn origin. It is a white to off-white, tasteless, odorless, relatively free-flowing powder. Sodium starch glycolate is used as a pharmaceutical grade dissolution excipient for tablets and capsules. Sodium starch glycolate absorbs water rapidly, resulting in swelling which leads to rapid disintegration of tablets and granules. It is used as a disintegrant, a suspending agent and as a gelling agent. Without a disintegrant, tablets may not dissolve appropriately and may affect the amount of active ingredient absorbed, thereby decreasing effectiveness.[1] [2]
List of medications using Sodium Starch Glycolate Type A Potato
- Alprazolam 2 mg
- Amoxicillin and Clavulanate Potassium 875 mg / 125 mg
- Amoxicillin Trihydrate 500 mg
- Hydroxyzine Hydrochloride 25 mg
- Ibuprofen 200 mg
- Methocarbamol 750 mg
- Methocarbamol 500 mg
- Methocarbamol 500 mg
- Methocarbamol 750 mg
- Oxycodone Hydrochloride 10 mg
- Oxycodone Hydrochloride 5 mg
- Oxycodone Hydrochloride 15 mg
- Sertraline Hydrochloride 100 mg
- Sertraline Hydrochloride 50 mg
- Sulfamethoxazole and Trimethoprim 800 mg / 160 mg
- Sulfamethoxazole and Trimethoprim 800 mg / 160 mg
- Sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim DS 800 mg / 160 mg
- Tramadol Hydrochloride 50 mg
- Tramadol Hydrochloride 50 mg
- Trazodone Hydrochloride 50 mg
References
- Dave RH. Overview of pharmaceutical excipients used in tablets and capsules. Drug Topics (online). Advanstar. 10/24/2008 http://drugtopics.modernmedicine.com/drugtopics/Top+News/Overview-of-pharmaceutical-excipients-used-in-tabl/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/561047. Accessed 08/19/2011
- Pformulate. Excipients. Sodium Starch Glycolate. 2004. http://www.pformulate.com/nastgly.htm Accessed October 17, 2011
Further information
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