
Modern Pharmaceutics, Two Volume Set
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Book Description
This new edition brings you up-to-date on the role of pharmaceutics and its future paradigms in the design of medicines. Contributions from over 30 international thought leaders cover the core disciplines of pharmaceutics and the impact of biotechnology, gene therapy, and cell therapy on current findings. Modern Pharmaceutics helps you stay current with the basic sciences, systems, applications, and advances in drug development—from materials used in formulations and dosage form design and manufacture, to testing in clinical trials.
Improve research and development strategies with brand new content on:
• methods of in vivo imaging of dosage forms
• excipients, tablets, and aerosols—from physical chemistry to dosage form
• solid state drug delivery
• biotechnology-based pharmaceuticals
• modern evaluation techniques for medicinal products
• pharmaceutical nanotechnology
• pharmaceutical physics
• pediatric and geriatric medication
• routes of administration
• paradigms in pharmaceutical research
Table of Contents
Volume 1:
1. Pharmaceutics: New Challenges, New Paradigms
2. Principles of Drug Absorption
3. Pharmacokinetics
4. Factors Influencing Oral Drug Absorption and Drug Availability
5. Effect of Route of Administration and Distribution on Drug Action
6. In Vivo Imaging of Dosage Forms
7. Chemical Kinetics and Drug Stability
8. The Solid State
9. Excipient Design and Characterization
10. Preformulation
11. Disperse Systems
12. Surfactants
13. Tablet Dosage Forms
14. Hard- and Soft-Shell Capsules
15. Parenteral Products
Index
Volume 2:
1. Time-Controlled Drug Delivery Systems
2. Bioequivalence
3. Cutaneous and Transdermal Delivery—Processes and Systems of Delivery
4. Design and Evaluation of Ophthalmic Pharmaceutical Products
5. Delivery of Drugs by the Pulmonary Route
6. Pediatric and Geriatric Pharmaceutics and Formulation
7. Biotechnology-Based Pharmaceuticals
8. Veterinary Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms
9. Target-Oriented Drug Delivery Systems
10. New Imaging Methods for Dosage Form Characterization
11. Aspects of Pharmaceutical Physics
12. Pharmaceutical Aspects of Nanotechnology
13. Dosage Forms for Personalized Medicine: From the Simple to the Complex
Index