When dextran is used in a pharmaceutical product or medical device, it should always be of pharmaceutical quality.

Technical Quality Dextran is a high purity dextran fraction with selected average molecular weights and molecular weight distributions used as starting or intermediate reagents.

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Ultra Narrow

Dextran Ultra is a range of very narrow, dispersed Dextran fractions with polydispersity Mw/Mn below 1.5. This makes our Dextran Ultra highly suitable for characterization, complexing and other pharmaceutical/technical uses where added/increased/additional requirements with regard to narrow distributions and quality are required.

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Standards & GPC Standards

Our Standards comes with a complete set of specifications including; weight average molecular weight (Mw), number average molecular weight (Mn), and mean peak molecular weight (Mp)

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Derivatives

Pharmacosmos offer Dextran derivatives with the same high standard and requirements to the highest quality as our world-leading Dextran products.

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Applications

As a nontoxic and biocompatible polysaccharide, dextran is used widely in research and production in the pharmaceutical, biomedical, and life science industries.

Oral applications

Our high quality dextrans are used widely to add solidity to oral pharmaceuticals and therapeutics.

Dextran in oral applications

Dextrans are used in oral pharmaceuticals and therapeutics to add solidity and to improve the consistency of substances during processing such as freeze drying. Dextran can also be used to alter the dissolution profile of drug formulations. For decades, dextran has had the GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) label from the US FDA, which was renewed in 2013.