Description
Long established as a core text for pharmaceutics courses, this book is the most comprehensive source on pharmaceutical dosage forms and drug delivery systems. Content coincides with the CAPE, APhA, and NAPLEX® competencies.
This edition includes updated drug information and has an increased focus on physical pharmacy. Coverage incorporates all new dosage forms on the market as well as those in the current US Pharmacopoeia-National Formulary. Updated photos are included. An "Applying the Principles and Concepts" section at the end of each chapter provides activities for the application of the material.
A companion website includes the fully searchable text and a quiz bank with more than 200 questions written in NAPLEX® format.
Features
--NEW! An "Applying the Principles and Concepts" section at the end of each chapter that provides faculty and students with group and individual activities for the application of the material in each chapter
--NEW! Chapter objectives that inform students what they will master in each chapter
--NEW! Includes updated photos
--Pharmaceutical and clinical case studies throughout the text introduce additional scientific principles and enhance the integration of the pharmaceutical sciences with pharmaceutical technology
About the Author(s)
- Loyd V Allen Jr., PhD
- Professor and Chair Emeritus, Division of Medical Chemistry and Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK; Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Pharmaceutical Compounding
- Nicholas G Popovich PhD
- Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacy Administration, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
- Howard C Ansel PhD
- Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Pharmacy, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Specs
- Edition: Ninth
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781779340
- Trim Size: 7 x 10
- Pages: 720
- Pub Date: Jan 7, 2010
- Weight: 3.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
Preface
List of Physical Pharmacy Capsules
Section I. INTRODUCTION TO DRUGS, DRUG DOSAGE FORMS AND DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
- 1. Introduction to Drugs and Pharmacy
- 2. New Drug Development and Approval Process
- 3. Current Good Manufacturing Practices and Current Good Compounding Practices
Section II. DRUG DOSAGE FORM AND DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM DESIGN
- 4. Dosage Form Design: Pharmaceutical and Formulation Considerations
- 5. Dosage Form Design: Biopharmaceutical and Pharmacokinetic Considerations
Section III. SOLID DOSAGE FORMS AND SOLID MODIFIED-RELEASE DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS
- 6. Powders and Granules
- 7. Capsules
- 8. Tablets
- 9. Solid Oral Modified-Release Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems
Section IV. SEMISOLID DOSAGE FORMS AND TRANSDERMAL SYSTEMS
- 10. Ointments, Creams, and Gels
- 11. Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems
Section V. PHARMACEUTICAL INSERTS
- 12. Suppositories and Inserts
Section VI. LIQUID DOSAGE FORMS
- 13. Solutions
- 14. Disperse Systems
Section VII. STERILE DOSAGE FORMS AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS
- 15. Parenterals
- 16. Biologics
- 17. Special Solutions and Suspensions
Section VIII. NOVEL AND ADVANCED DOSAGE FORMS, DELIVERY SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES
- 18. Radiopharmaceuticals
- 19. Products of Biotechnology
- 20. Novel Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems
APPENDICES
- A. Definitions of Selected Drug Categories
- B. Glossary of Pharmaceutical Terms
- C. Systems and Techniques of Pharmaceutical Measurement
Index
