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Excipient. An excipient is generally a pharmacologically inactive substance formulated with the active ingredient of a medication. Excipients are commonly used to bulk up formulations that contain potent active ingredients, to allow convenient and accurate dispensation of a drug substance when producing a dosage form.
For application as excipient in pharmaceutical industry, an important aspect is the improvement in processability of cellulose; in this sense, the most important cellulose derivative is microcrystalline cellulose (MCC). MCC, introduced in the early 1960s, is regarded as the best excipient for direct compression tableting .