Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice

by Alekha Dash (Editor), Somnath Singh (Editor)

Overview

Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice is an engaging textbook that covers all aspects of pharmaceutics with emphasis on the basic science and its application to pharmacy practice. Based on curricular guidelines mandated by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), this book incorporates laboratory skills by identifying portions of each principle that can be used in a clinical setting. In this way, instructors are able to demonstrate their adherence to ACPE standards and objectives, simply by using this book. Written in a straightforward and student-friendly manner, Pharmaceutics enables students to gain the scientific foundation to understand drug physicochemical properties, practical aspects of dosage forms and drug delivery systems, and the biological applications of drug administration. Key ideas are illustrated and reinforced through chapter objectives and chapter summaries. A companion website features resources for students and instructors, including videos illustrating difficult processes and procedures as well as practice questions and answers. Instructor resources include Powerpoint slides and a full-color image bank. This book is intended for students in pharmaceutical science programs taking pharmaceutics or biopharmaceutics courses at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323997973
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	09/13/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	460
File size:	136 MB
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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.

Table 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 processes8. Drug, Dosage forms and Drug delivery systems9. Solid Dosage forms10. Liquid Dosage form11. Gaseous dosage forms12. Semi-solid dosage forms13. Special dosage forms14. Emerging therapeutics and their delivery challenges Part 3: Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics15. Routes of drug administration16. Membrane transport and Diffusion17. Factors affecting drug absorption and disposition in a system18. Bioavailability and Bioequivalence

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An updated textbook that covers all aspects of pharmaceutics with an emphasis on basic science and its application to pharmacy practice

Editorial Reviews

"Pharmaceutics is an important part of the practice of pharmacy. This book outlines pharmaceutics and uses chapter summary questions and case studies to reinforce the concepts…This book is appropriate for pharmaceutical science, pharmacy, and biomedical sciences courses. It is written at a level that is easy to follow and provides practical examples. Compared to other pharmaceutics books…this one is up to date and student-friendly." Rating: 4 Stars —Doody.com, March 21, 2014

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