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Completely updated and rewritten, the new edition of Controlled Drug Delivery focuses on both the fundamentals of drug delivery and the applications of these fundamentals to building sustained/controlled release drug delivery systems. It discusses emerging technologies for fabricating these systems. .. considers polymers' properties and applications in controlled drug delivery ... and identifies challenges facing formulation scientists in designing delivery systems for biotechnology-derived products. In addition, the Second Edition features an examination of cell biology and biochemical approaches to controlled release research ... provides a detailed treatise of chemical and biological principles essential to controlled drug delivery systems' design and evaluation ... ex- plores novel chemical, oral, parenteral, irnplantable, and transdermal approaches not yet com- mercially available ... facilitates design and evaluation of new and existing systems for regulatory approval ... and assesses both advantages and limitations of various technologies. Illustrated with numerous drawings, photographs, and tables and containing over 1,700 refer- ences, this volume comprises a superb resource for pharmacists and pharmacologists as well as biotechnologists, chemical engineers, medicinal chemists, and graduate students in these areas.
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Publisher | CRC Press |
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Binding | Hardcover |
Year | 2022 |
Edition | 2/e |
Pages | 716 |
Author | Joseph R. Robinson |
About the Author | JOSEPH R. ROBlNSON is Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of WisconsinMadison, where he has |