Modern Pharmaceutics

With over 100 illustrations, Volume 1 addresses the core disciplines of pharmaceutics (absorption, PK, excipients, tablet dosage forms, and packaging), and explores the challenges and paradigms of pharmaceutics.

Key topics in Volume 1 include:

• principles of drug absorption, chemical kinetics, and drug stability
• pharmacokinetics
• the effect of route of administration and distribution on drug action
• in vivo imaging of dose forms: gamma scintigraphy, PET imaging NMR, MRI, etc.
• powder technology
• excipient design and characterization
• preformulation
• optimization techniques in pharmaceutical formulation and processing
• disperse and surfactant systems
• the solid state, tablet dosage forms, coating processes, and hard and soft shell capsules
• parenteral products
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