Modern Pharmaceutics, Fourth Edition,

by Banker, Gilbert S.; Rhodes, Christopher T.

• ISBN13: 9780824706746
• ISBN10: 0824706749
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-24
• Publisher: Informa Healthc

Summary

"Completely revised and expanded throughout. Presents a comprehensive integrated, sequenced approach to drug dosage formulation, design, and evaluation. Indentifies the pharmacodynamic and physicochemical factors influencing drug action through various routes of administration."

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Contributors	ix
Drug Products: Their Role in the Treatment of Disease, Their Quality, and Their Status and Future as Drug-Delivery Systems	1	(22)
Gilbert S. Banker
Principles of Drug Absorption	23	(44)
Michael Mayersohn
Pharmacokinetics	67	(26)
David W. A. Bourne
Factors Influencing Drug Absorption and Drug Availability	93	(26)
Betty-ann Hoener
Leslie Z. Benet
The Effect of Route of Administration and Distribution on Drug Action	119	(20)
Svein Øie
Leslie Z. Benet
Chemical Kinetics and Drug Stability	139	(28)
J. Keith Guillory
Rolland I. Poust
Preformulation	167	(20)
Jens T. Carstensen
Cutaneous and Transdermal Delivery---Processes and Systems of Delivery	187	(50)
Gordon L. Flynn
Disperse Systems	237	(50)
Wandee Im-Emsap
Ornlaksana Paeratakul
Juergen Siepmann
Tablet Dosage Forms	287	(48)
Mary J. Kottke
Edward M. Rudnic
Hard and Soft Shell Capsules	335	(46)
Larry L. Augsburger
Parenteral Products	381	(34)
James C. Boylan
Steven L. Nail
Design and Evaluation of Ophthalmic Pharmaceutical Products	415	(64)
John C. Lang
Robert E. Roehrs
Denise P. Rodeheaver
Paul J. Missel
Rajni Jani
Masood A. Chowhan
Delivery of Drugs by the Pulmonary Route	479	(22)
Anthony J. Hickey
Sustained- and Controlled-Release Drug Delivery Systems	501	(28)
Gwen M. Jantzen
Joseph R. Robinson
Target-Oriented Drug-Delivery Systems	529	(58)
Vijay Kumar
Gilbert S. Banker
Packaging of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms	587	(20)
Thomas J. Ambrosio
Optimization Techniques in Pharmaceutical Formulation and Processing	607	(20)
Joseph B. Schwartz
Robert E. O'Connor
Roger L. Schnaare
Food and Drug Laws that Affect Drug Product Design, Manufacture, and Distribution	627	(18)
Garnet E. Peck
Roland Poust
European Aspects of the Regulation of Drug Products with Particular Reference to Development Pharmaceutics	645	(22)
Brian R. Matthews
Pediatric and Geriatric Aspects of Pharmaceutics	667	(28)
Michelle Danish
Mary Kathryn Kottke
Biotechnology-Based Pharmaceuticals	695	(30)
Paul R. Dal Monte
S. Kathy Edmond Rouan
Narendra B. Bam
The Pharmacist and Veterinary Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms	725	(10)
J. Patrick McDonnell
Lisa Blair Banker
Dietary Supplements	735	(16)
Teresa Bailey Klepser
Bioequivalency	751	(16)
Christopher T. Rhodes
Drug Information	767	(32)
Hazel H. Seaba
Managed Care and Pharmacotherapy Management	799	(14)
Julie M. Ganther
William R. Doucette
A View to the Future	813	(20)
Gilbert S. Banker
Christopher T. Rhodes
Index	833