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Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice, Second Edition is a valuable textbook covering the role and application of pharmaceutics within pharmacy practice. This updated resource is geared toward meeting and incorporating the current curricular guidelines on pharmaceutics and laboratory skills mandated by the American Council for Pharmacy Education. It includes a number of student-friendly features, including chapter objectives and summaries, practical examples, case studies, numerous images and key-concept text boxes. Two new chapters are included, as well as a new end of chapter section covering "critical reflections and practice applications". Divided into three sections - Physical Principles and Properties of Pharmaceutics; Practical Aspects of Pharmaceutics; and Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics - this new edition covers all aspects of pharmaceutics and providing a single and compelling source for students.
List of contents
Part 1: Physical Principles and Properties of Pharmaceutics 1. Introduction: Terminology, basic mathematical skills and calculations
2. Physical states, thermodynamic principles in pharmaceutics
3. Physical properties, their determination and importance in pharmaceutics
4. Equilibrium processes in Pharmaceutics
5. Kinetic processes and Pharmaceutics
6. Complexation and Protein Binding
Part 2: Practical Aspects of Pharmaceutics 7. Other processes
8. Drug, Dosage forms and Drug delivery systems
9. Solid Dosage forms
10. Liquid Dosage form
11. Gaseous dosage forms
12. Semi-solid dosage forms
13. Special dosage forms
14. Emerging therapeutics and their delivery challenges
Part 3: Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics15. Routes of drug administration
16. Membrane transport and Diffusion
17. Factors affecting drug absorption and disposition in a system
18. Bioavailability and Bioequivalence
About the author
Alekha Dash is a Professor and Gilbert F. Taffe, Jr. Endowed Chair at the Department of Pharmacy Sciences, and Associate Dean for Research, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. His research interests include Design and Evaluation of Novel Drug Delivery Systems, Preformulation Studies, Solid-State Characterization of Drugs and Dosage Forms, Pharmaceutical Analysis Utilizing the Following Techniques: HPLC, GC, GC-MS, Thermoanalytical methods, IR, Powder X-ray Diffraction and Scanning Electron Microscopy, and Evaluation and Design of Dosage Forms for Nutraceuticals.Somnath Singh is Professor and Director in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. His research interests include skin irritation, nematotoxicity, percutaneous absorption, protein formulation and stability, controlled release drug delivery systems and smart polymers.
