Transdermal Drug Delivery

From Theory to Clinical Practice

Adrian Williams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2003
Pharmaceutical Press (Verlag)
978-0-85369-489-2 (ISBN)

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This text addresses all aspects of how to deliver drugs to the skin for local effects or across the skin for systemic therapy. Starting with a discussion of the principles underlying the area, the text expands into strategies used to deliver drugs effectively.

The therapeutic benefits of administering drugs through the skin have been recognized for many years and have been capitalized upon in commercially successful and important transdermal delivery systems, such as estradiol patches for hormone replacement and nicotine patches as aids to smoking cessation. "Transdermal and Topical Drug Delivery" addresses all aspects of how to deliver drugs to the skin for local effects or across the skin for systemic therapy. Starting with a discussion of the principles underlying the area, the text expands into strategies used to deliver drugs effectively. This should be a valuable practical guide for the clinical delivery of drugs.

Structure and function of human skin; theoretical aspects of transdermal drug delivery; experimental design; chemical modulation of skin permeation; physical and technological modulation of transdermal permeation; topical and transdermal formulation; clinical principles.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.9.2003
Zusatzinfo	index
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
ISBN-10	0-85369-489-3 / 0853694893
ISBN-13	978-0-85369-489-2 / 9780853694892
Zustand	Neuware