Transport Processes in Pharmaceutical Systems.

This cutting-edge reference clearly explains pharmaceutical transport phenomena, demonstrating applications ranging from drug or nutrient uptake into vesicle or cell suspensions, drug dissolution and absorption across biological membranes, whole body kinetics, and drug release from polymer reservoir...

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Main Author: Amidon, Gordon L.
Other Authors: Lee, Ping I., Topp, Elizabeth M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : CRC Press, 1999
Series:Drugs and the pharmaceutical sciences.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Principles of Mass Transfer; Analytical Solutions to Mass Transfer; Pharmacokinetics: Model Structure and Transport Systems; Experimental Methods to Evaluate Diffusion Coefficients and Investigate Transport Processes of Pharmaceutical Interest; Dissolution of Pharmaceuticals in Simple and Complex Systems; Biological Transport Phenomena in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Cellular Mechanisms; Improving Oral Drug Transport via Prodrugs; Quantitative Approaches to Delineate Passive Transport Mechanisms in Cell Culture Monolayers.
  • Barriers to Drug Transport in Ocular EpitheliaPredicting Oral Drug Absorption in Humans; Controlled Release Osmotic Drug Delivery Systems for Oral Applications; Transport in Polymer Systems; Synthesis and Properties of Hydrogels Used for Drug Delivery; Stimuli-Modulated Delivery Systems; Properties of Solids That Affect Transport; Heat and Mass Transfer in Low Pressure Gases: Applications to Freeze Drying; Heat and Mass Transport: Hygroscopicity; Back Cover.