Full Description
A revision guide for students giving bullet points of basic information on physical pharmacy. This text is derived from the textbook Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy and is designed to be used alongside it for those revision periods when time is short. It includes key points, tips, self assessment questions/answers and memory maps to aid with revision. For this second edition there is a new chapter added on pharmaceutical nanotechnology, and clinical notes are incorporated.
Contents
1. Solids; 2. Solubility and Solution Properties of Drugs; 3. Drug Stability; 4. Surfactants; 5. Emulsions, Suspensions and Other Dispersed Systems; 6. Polymers; 7. Drug Absorption; 8. Physicochemical Drug Interactions and Incompatibilities; 9. Peptides, Proteins and Other Biopharmaceuticals; 10. in Vitro Assessment of Dosage Forms; 11. Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology;
