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Pharmaceutics

Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice

  • 2nd Edition - September 13, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Alekha Dash, Somnath Singh
  • Language: English

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Description

Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice, Second Edition is a valuable textbook covering the role and application of pharmaceutics within pharmacy practice. This updated resource is geared toward meeting and incorporating the current curricular guidelines on pharmaceutics and laboratory skills mandated by the American Council for Pharmacy Education. It includes a number of student-friendly features, including chapter objectives and summaries, practical examples, case studies, numerous images and key-concept text boxes. Two new chapters are included, as well as a new end of chapter section covering "critical reflections and practice applications".

Divided into three sections – Physical Principles and Properties of Pharmaceutics; Practical Aspects of Pharmaceutics; and Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics – this new edition covers all aspects of pharmaceutics and providing a single and compelling source for students.

Key features

  • Facilitates an integrated and extensive coverage of the study of pharmaceutics due to the clear and engaging language used by the authors
  • Includes chapter objectives and summaries to illustrate and reinforce key ideas
  • Meets curricular guidelines for pharmaceutics and laboratory skills mandated by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
  • Includes new practice questions, answers, and case studies for experiential learning

Readership

Student of pharmaceutics, biopharmaceutics, and pharmaceutical sciences

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 processes

8. Drug, Dosage forms and Drug delivery systems

9. Solid Dosage forms

10. Liquid Dosage form

11. Gaseous dosage forms

12. Semi-solid dosage forms

13. Special dosage forms

14. Emerging therapeutics and their delivery challenges

Part 3: Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics

15. Routes of drug administration

16. Membrane transport and Diffusion

17. Factors affecting drug absorption and disposition in a system

18. Bioavailability and Bioequivalence

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 29, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Alekha Dash

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.
Affiliations and expertise
R.Ph, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacy Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

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Somnath Singh

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.
Affiliations and expertise
PhD, Professor and Director, Department of Pharmacy Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

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