Gbenga Alebiowu

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Gbenga Alebiowu, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the department of pharmaceutics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Articles

The Influence of Pregelatinized Starch Disintegrants on Interacting Variables that Act on Disintegrant Properties

Gbenga Alebiowu

August 2nd 2003

This study evaluates the quantitative effects of the nature and concentrations of disintegrants and a tablet's relative density on disintegrant properties such as disintegration time and the crushing strength-friability/disintegration time ratio.

Effects of Natural and Pregelantinized Sorghum, Plantain, and Corn Starch Binders on the Compressional Characteristics of a Paracetamol Tablet Formulation

Gbenga Alebiowu;O.A. Itiola

September 1st 2001

This comparative study suggests that pregelatinized starches are superior to natural starches in terms of improving the plastic deformation in tablet formulations during compression.