FASTtrack: Pharmaceutics - Drug Delivery and Targeting
Perrie, Yvonne; Rades, Thomas
First edition
Yvonne Perrie - Chair in Drug Delivery, Aston Pharmacy School, Aston University and Thomas Rades - Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences
FASTtrack provides the ultimate lecture notes and is a must-have for all pharmacy students wanting to study and test themselves for forthcoming exams.
Pharmaceutics: Drug Delivery and Targeting focuses on what pharmacy students really need to know in order to pass exams, providing concise, bulleted information, chapter overviews, hints, key points, mind maps and an all-important self-assessment section which includes MCQs.
This FASTtrack book thoroughly and systematically reviews important concepts relating to the delivery and targeting of drugs. The emphasis of this book is placed on the principles of drug release and targeting, including immediate, delayed, sustained, controlled and targeted release. Relevant examples of delivery systems are given throughout the book.
Pharmaceutics: Drug Delivery and Targeting will be a valuable resource for any pharmacy student needing to study the essentials of this topic.
Covering all areas of the pharmacy degree, the titles in the series include:
- Applied Pharmaceutical Practice (based on the textbook of the same name)
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine (based on the textbook of the same name)
- Law and Ethics in Pharmacy Practice
- Managing Symptoms in the Pharmacy
- Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing (based on the textbook of the same name)
- Pharmaceutics - Dosage Form and Design
- Pharmaceutics - Drug Delivery and Targeting
- Pharmacology
- Physical Pharmacy (based on Florence & Attwood's Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy)
- Therapeutics
Visit the FASTtrack website www.fasttrackpharmacy.com for extra MCQS, sample online content and much more.
FASTtrack: Pharmaceutics - Drug Delivery and Targeting is also available as an eBook.
1. Introduction to Drug Delivery
2. Controlling the Release of a Drug
3. Site-directed Drug Delivery
4. Chemical Targeting
5. Biochemical Targeting
6. Particle Drug Delivery
7. Surfactant Based Carriers
8. Polymeric Systems and Biomaterials
9. Gene Therapy
10. Conclusions and Answers to MCQs:
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Textbook
ISBN 978 0 85369 762 6
Published Oct 2009
Paperback
234 x 156mm (240pp)




