FASTtrack: Pharmaceutics - Drug Delivery and Targeting

FASTtrack Pharmaceutics: Drug Delivery and Targeting systematically reviews important concepts and facts for the delivery and targeting of drugs. Relevant examples of drug delivery systems are given throughout the book with a focus on drug delivery systems that have actually reached clinical reality.

FASTtrack Pharmaceutics: Drug Delivery and Targeting focuses on what you really need to know in order to pass exams. Concise, bulleted information, chapter overviews, hints, key points, mind maps and an all-important self-assessment section which includes MCQs.

Information is presented concisely with self assessment questions/answers and mindmaps to aid learning. The text has been updated for the new edition based on student feedback.

Pharmaceutics: Drug Delivery and Targeting is a valuable resource for any pharmacy student needing to study the essentials of this topic.

Watch author Yvonne Perrie explaining how pharmaceutical scientists are responsible for the research and development of new medicines, ensuring their safety and quality.

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Contents

1. Controlling Drug Delivery

2. Immediate-Release Drug Delivery Systems I: Increasing the solubility and dissolution rate of drugs

3. Immediate-Release Drug Delivery Systems II: Increasing the permeability and absorption of drugs

4. Delayed-Release Drug Delivery Systems

5. Sustained-Release Drug Delivery Systems

6. Controlled-Release Dosage Forms

7. Site-Directed Drug Targeting

8. Carriers for Drug Targeting

Answers to self-assessment

Mind maps