Strategies to Modify the Drug Release from Pharmaceutical Systems

Since the earliest dosage forms to modern drug delivery systems, came a great development and growth of knowledge with respect to drug delivery. Strategies to Modify the Drug Release from Pharmaceutical Systems will address principles, systems, applications and advances in the field.It will be principally a textbook and a reference source of strategies to modify the drug release. Moreover, the characterization, mathematical and physicochemical models, applications and the systems will be discussed.

• Addresses the principles, systems, applications and advances in the field of drug delivery
• Highlights the mathematical and physicochemical principles related to strategies  
• Discusses drug release and its possible modifications

Students, Lecturers, Professors and Researchers of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Drug delivery and Technology.

• Chapter 1 - General considerations
• Pharmaceutics: Safety, quality and efficacy
• Conventional and alternative therapeutic regimens
• Chapter 2 - Modification of drug release
• Objectives
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• History
• Chapter 3 - Classification of therapeutic systems for drug delivery
• Passives, pre-programmed
• Actives, programmed and controlled externally
• Actives, self-programmable
• Chapter 4 - Main mechanisms to control the drug release
• Diffusion
• Swelling
• Erosion
• Osmosis
• Others
• Chapter 5 - Mathematical and physicochemical models of drug release
• Chapter 6 - Drug delivery systems: Principles, local of administration, materials, characterization, applications, advances and the use of natural products
• Matrix Tablets
• Suspensions
• Osmotic Pumps
• Micro/nanoparticles
• Micro/nanoemulsioned systems
• Liposomes and niosomes
• Floating Systems
• Systems with cyclodextrins
• Transdermal systems
• Bio/mucoadhesive Systems
• Liquid crystalline systems
• Implants
• Biocompatible carriers
• Other systems