Modern Pharmaceutics Volume 1: Basic Principles and Systems, Fifth Edition

With over 100 illustrations, Volume 1 addresses the core disciplines of pharmaceutics (absorption, PK, excipients, tablet dosage forms, and packaging), and explores the challenges and paradigms of pharmaceutics. Key topics in Volume 1 include: * principles of drug absorption, chemical kinetics, and drug stability * pharmacokinetics * the effect of route of administration and distribution on drug action * in vivo imaging of dose forms: gamma scintigraphy, PET imaging NMR, MRI, etc. * powder technology * excipient design and characterization * preformulation * optimization techniques in pharmaceutical formulation and processing * disperse and surfactant systems * the solid state, tablet dosage forms, coating processes, and hard and soft shell capsules * parenteral products