Remington Education: Pharmaceutics covers the basic principles of pharmaceutics, from dosage forms to drug delivery and targeting. It addresses all the principles covered in an introductory pharmacy course. As well as offering a summary of key information in pharmaceutics, it offers numerous case studies and MCQs for self assessment.
1. Introduction to dosage form design; 2. Intermolecular forces and the physical and pharmaceutical properties of drugs; 3. Dispersed systems; 4. Properties of solutions and manipulation of solubility; 5. Chemical stability of drugs; 6. Drug travel from dosage form to receptor; 7. Bioavailability, bioequivalence and the Biopharmaceutical Classification System; 8. Parenteral drug delivery; 9. Delivery of biopharmaceuticals and the use of novel carrier systems; 10. Drug delivery to the eye; 11. Drug delivery from the oral cavity; 12. Oral delivery of immediate release dosage forms; 13. Oral delivery of modified release solid dosage forms; 14. Rectal and vaginal drug delivery; 15. Nasal drug delivery; 16. Drug delivery to the lung and from the lung; 17. Drug delivery to the skin; 18. Transdermal dosage forms: drug delivery to the blood stream.
