Publisher's Synopsis
This two volume Second Edition describes the anatomical, physiological, pharmaceutical, and technological aspects of delivery routes, found in areas like: Oral Ocular Dermal and transdermal Vaginal Colonic Oral mucosal Nasal Pulmonary Providing insight and critical assessment of the many available and emerging modified release drug delivery systems for their current and future value, topics include: Intellectual property rights and regulatory issues and challenges osmotic systems and Qtrol. Qdis. Matrix Systems thiolated polymers for CR, Oradur. IDD technology, and chronotherapy technology Oral-lyn™ (RapidMist™ Technology) Dentipatch drug delivery system ORAVESCENT™: a novel technology for the transmucosal delivery of drugs Egalet and COLAL technologies.
