Why is mannitol becoming more and more popular as a pharmaceutical excipient in solid dosage forms?

Impact of Excipient Interactions on Solid Dosage Form Stability

(2012) Ajit S. Narang et al.   PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH

Reactive Impurities in Excipients: Profiling, Identification and Mitigation of Drug–Excipient Incompatibility

(2011) Yongmei Wu et al.   AAPS PHARMSCITECH

Reaction between drug substances and pharmaceutical excipients: Formation of esters between cetirizine and polyols

(2010) He Yu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS

Effect of spray-dried mannitol on the performance of microcrystalline cellulose-based wet granulated tablet formulation

(2010) Sherif I. F. Badawy et al.   PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

Quantifying the ‘hidden’ lactose in drugs used for the treatment of gastrointestinal conditions

(2008) P. EADALA et al.   ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Compaction of lactose drug mixtures: Quantification of the extent of incompatibility by FT-Raman spectroscopy

(2007) A FLEMMING   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS