Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a particulate composition for an easy-to-take solid preparation, which has excellent moldability (hardness) and slipperiness. The present invention relates to a particulate composition for an easy-to-take solid preparation, comprising sugar alcohol and a gelling agent that will show slipperiness when it is brought into contact with water, wherein a part or whole of the surface of the particulate composition is coated with the gelling agent, to an easy-to-take solid preparation comprising the particulate composition, and to a method for the production of the easy-to-take solid preparation.

Abstract: The present application provides a disintegrating particulate composition containing microfibrous cellulose; a disintegrating solid containing the composition; and the like.

Abstract: The purpose of present invention to provide a particulate composition that has the excellent provides moldability and useful as a composition that is used as an outer layer of a solid preparation, especially an easy-to-take solid preparation and the like; a composition for an easy-to-take solid preparation, which comprises the particulate composition and a gelling agent that will show slipperiness when it is brought into contact with water; and a solid preparation comprising the composition. The present invention relates to a particulate composition comprising sugar alcohol and a water-insoluble polymer; a composition for an easy-to-take solid preparation, which comprises the particulate composition and a gelling agent that will show slipperiness when it is brought into contact with water; and a solid preparation comprising the composition and the like.

Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an easy-to-take granular preparation that forms a gel having low adhesiveness and appropriate hardness when brought into contact with water, exhibiting an improved swallowing as a result, and to provide a method for producing the granular preparation. The present invention pertains to an easy-to-take granular preparation including granules, each of which contains a sugar or a sugar alcohol and has a surface at least partially coated with a thickener, and to a method for producing the easy-to-take granular preparation, the method including granulating a composition that includes a sugar or a sugar alcohol using an aqueous solution of a thickener.

Abstract: The purpose of present invention to provide a method for the production of an easy-to-take solid preparation, which is mainly characterized in that an outer layer-forming processing to provide an easy-to-take property is simply performed in a dry process without going through a wet condition so as to make the formed outer layer thicker; the easy-to-take solid preparation and the like.

Abstract: The purpose of present invention to provide a method for the production of an easy-to-take solid preparation, which is mainly characterized in that a coating processing for the easy-to-take property is simply performed by using a gelling agent in a dry process, without going through a wet condition, the easy-to-take solid preparation and the like.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a disintegrating tablet having excellent tablet hardness and disintegrability, which is suitable for pharmaceuticals and various kinds of foods such as supplemental foods, nutrition function foods and health foods has been desired as highly convenient forms which can safely be taken by patients who have difficulty in swallowing drugs, elderly people, children, etc., and which can easily be taken without water irrespective of places; and a disintegrative particulate composition comprised in the disintegrating tablet. The present invention relates to a disintegrative particulate composition comprising a disintegrator component and micro-fibrillated cellulose, and a disintegrating tablet for pharmaceuticals or foods, comprising the disintegrative particulate composition, which has excellent tablet hardness and disintegrability.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an intraoral retentive disintegrating solid preparation having excellent disintegrability and cohesiveness, a method for the production thereof, and a powder composition for use in the method for the said production. The present invention relates to an intraoral retentive disintegrating solid preparation comprising at least one kind of a disintegrator and at least one kind of a water-soluble polymer, wherein a disintegration starting time is within 40 seconds and a cohesiveness index is 0.4 or more, a method for the production thereof, and a powder composition for use in the method for the said production, etc.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a particulate composition for an easy-to-take solid preparation, which has excellent moldability (hardness) and slipperiness. The present invention relates to a particulate composition for an easy-to-take solid preparation, comprising sugar alcohol and a gelling agent that will show slipperiness when it is brought into contact with water, wherein a part or whole of the surface of the particulate composition is coated with the gelling agent, to an easy-to-take solid preparation comprising the particulate composition, and to a method for the production of the easy-to-take solid preparation.

Abstract: The purpose of present invention to provide a particulate composition that has the excellent provides moldability and useful as a composition that is used as an outer layer of a solid preparation, especially an easy-to-take solid preparation and the like; a composition for an easy-to-take solid preparation, which comprises the particulate composition and a gelling agent that will show slipperiness when it is brought into contact with water; and a solid preparation comprising the composition. The present invention relates to a particulate composition comprising sugar alcohol and a water-insoluble polymer; a composition for an easy-to-take solid preparation, which comprises the particulate composition and a gelling agent that will snow slipperiness when it is brought into contact with water; arid a solid preparation comprising the composition and the like.

Abstract: A method is used in the production of a disintegrative particulate composition including three components consisting of a first disintegrator component having sedimentation volume in water of 4.0 cm3/g or more, and a second disintegrator component other than the first disintegrator component and an excipient. The method includes a first wet granulation step using any two of the three components, and a second wet granulation step using the granules obtained in the first wet granulation step and at least the component not used in the first wet granulation step; thus the disintegrative particulate composition is produced. Moreover, an orally disintegrating tablet contains a medicinal ingredient and the disintegrative particulate composition.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a disintegrating tablet having excellent tablet hardness and disintegrability, which is suitable for pharmaceuticals and various kinds of foods such as supplemental foods, nutrition function foods and health foods has been desired as highly convenient forms which can safely be taken by patients who have difficulty in swallowing drugs, elderly people, children, etc., and which can easily be taken without water irrespective of places; and a disintegrative particulate composition comprised in the disintegrating tablet. The present invention relates to a disintegrative particulate composition comprising a disintegrator component and micro-fibrillated cellulose, and a disintegrating tablet for pharmaceuticals or foods, comprising the disintegrative particulate composition, which has excellent tablet hardness and disintegrability.

Abstract: The purpose of present invention to provide a method for the production of an easy-to-take solid preparation, which is mainly characterized in that a coating processing for the easy-to-take property is simply performed by using a gelling agent in a dry process, without going through a wet condition, the easy-to-take solid preparation and the like.

Abstract: The purpose of present invention to provide a method for the production of an easy-to-take solid preparation, which is mainly characterized in that an outer layer-forming processing to provide an easy-to-take property is simply performed in a dry process without going through a wet condition so as to make the formed outer layer thicker; the easy-to-take solid preparation and the like.

Abstract: A method is used in the production of a disintegrative particulate composition including three components consisting of a first disintegrator component having sedimentation volume in water of 4.0 cm3/g or more, and a second disintegrator component other than the first disintegrator component and an excipient. The method includes a first wet granulation step using any two of the three components, and a second wet granulation step using the granules obtained in the first wet granulation step and at least the component not used in the first wet granulation step; thus the disintegrative particulate composition is produced. Moreover, an orally disintegrating tablet contains a medicinal ingredient and the disintegrative particulate composition.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a disintegrative particulate composition that can be used for an orally disintegrating tablet having both excellent tablet hardness and disintegrability. This invention relates to a method for the production of a disintegrative particulate composition including three components consisting of a first disintegrator component having sedimentation volume in water of 4.0 cm3/g or more, a second disintegrator component other than the first disintegrator component and an excipient, which comprises a first wet granulation step using any two of the three components and a second wet granulation step using the granules obtained in the first wet granulation step and at least the remaining one component not used in the first wet granulation step; the disintegrative particulate composition thus produced; and an orally disintegrating tablet comprising a medicinal ingredient and the disintegrative particulate composition.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an orally disintegrating tablet having both an excellent tablet hardness and disintegrability even when the content of a medicinal ingredient is high. This invention relates to an orally disintegrating tablet comprising a medicinal ingredient having distribution coefficient (log P) in a range of from ?6.0 to 10.0 and a disintegrative particulate composition produced by granulation consisting of at least two stages, especially to said orally disintegrating tablet having tablet hardness of from 30 to 100 N, and disintegration time in water of from 10 to 30 sec.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an orally disintegrating tablet (ultrafast-disintegrating tablet) having an extremely high disintegrability (short disintegration time), and a high tablet hardness, and to provide a simple method for the production of said ultrafast-disintegrating tablet without such a complicated process as freeze-drying. This invention relates to an orally disintegrating tablet comprising a first disintegrator component of an acid-type carboxymethylcellulose, and having a tablet hardness of 10 N or more and a disintegration time in water of less than 15 seconds, a method for the production of said orally disintegrating tablet, and to a disintegrative particulate composition for use in said method.