Full Description
Since the earliest dosage forms to modern drug delivery systems, came a great development and growth of knowledge with respect to drug delivery. Strategies to Modify the Drug Release from Pharmaceutical Systems will address principles, systems, applications and advances in the field.It will be principally a textbook and a reference source of strategies to modify the drug release. Moreover, the characterization, mathematical and physicochemical models, applications and the systems will be discussed.
Contents
Chapter 1 - General considerations
Pharmaceutics: Safety, quality and efficacy
Conventional and alternative therapeutic regimens
Chapter 2 - Modification of drug release
Objectives
Advantages
Disadvantages
History
Chapter 3 - Classification of therapeutic systems for drug delivery
Passives, pre-programmed
Actives, programmed and controlled externally
Actives, self-programmable
Chapter 4 - Main mechanisms to control the drug release
Diffusion
Swelling
Erosion
Osmosis
Others
Chapter 5 - Mathematical and physicochemical models of drug release
Chapter 6 - Drug delivery systems: Principles, local of administration, materials, characterization, applications, advances and the use of natural products
Matrix Tablets
Suspensions
Osmotic Pumps
Micro/nanoparticles
Micro/nanoemulsioned systems
Liposomes and niosomes
Floating Systems
Systems with cyclodextrins
Transdermal systems
Bio/mucoadhesive Systems
Liquid crystalline systems
Implant
Biocompatible carriers
Other systems
