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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">835</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>International Journal of Pharmaceutical Excipients</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2996-8968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of the Americas</publisher-name>
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      <self-uri xlink:href="https://jefc.scholasticahq.com/">Website: International Journal of Pharmaceutical Excipients</self-uri>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">141261</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.66617/001c.141261</article-id>
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          <subject>Original article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Moisture sorption and desorption of different commercially available microcrystalline cellulose grades as a function of relative humidity</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Serajuddin</surname>
            <given-names>Abu T.M.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="author-aff-1">
            <sup>1</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Raje</surname>
            <given-names>Vishvesh</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="author-aff-2">
            <sup>2</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Kandagatla</surname>
            <given-names>Hari P.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="author-aff-3">
            <sup>3</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="author-aff-1">
        <label>1</label>
        <institution-wrap>
          <institution content-type="dept">College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences,</institution>
        </institution-wrap>
        <institution-wrap>
          <institution content-type="edu">St. John’s University</institution>
        </institution-wrap>
      </aff>
      <aff id="author-aff-2">
        <label>2</label>
        <institution-wrap>
          <institution content-type="dept">College of Pharmacy</institution>
        </institution-wrap>
        <institution-wrap>
          <institution content-type="edu">St. Johns University</institution>
        </institution-wrap>
      </aff>
      <aff id="author-aff-3">
        <label>3</label>
        <institution-wrap>
          <institution content-type="dept">College of Pharmacy</institution>
        </institution-wrap>
        <institution-wrap>
          <institution content-type="edu">St. Johns University</institution>
        </institution-wrap>
      </aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-06-23">
        <day>23</day>
        <month>6</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="collection" iso-8601-date="2025-06-23">
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue seq="0">2</issue>
      <issue-title>International Journal of Pharmaceutical Excipients Q2</issue-title>
      <fpage>118</fpage>
      <lpage>132</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-02-01">
          <day>1</day>
          <month>2</month>
          <year>2025</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2025-04-28">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>4</month>
          <year>2025</year>
        </date>
      </history>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) is extensively used in pharmaceutical formulations due to its exceptional functionality as a diluent, dry binder, disintegrant, and absorbent. Despite being marketed in numerous grades that vary in particle size, source, extraction techniques, and co-processing methods, its basic chemical structure remains consistent across grades, with differences primarily in physical properties. This study investigates moisture sorption and desorption behavior and its effects on solid-state properties of thirteen different MCC grades, including eleven regular and two co-processed varieties, as moisture content significantly influences compaction, tensile strength, and viscoelastic properties.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Microcrystalline cellulose</kwd>
        <kwd>MCC</kwd>
        <kwd>excipients</kwd>
        <kwd>co-processed excipients</kwd>
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