Modern Pharmaceutics Volume 1

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