Pharmaceutical emulsions and suspensions

✍ Scribed by Françoise Nielloud; Gilberte Marti-Mestres

• Publisher: Marcel Dekker
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 669
• Series: Drugs and the pharmaceutical sciences, v. 105
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content: pt. 1. Basic concepts --
Main surfactants used in the pharmaceutical field --
Formulatin concepts for the emulsion maker --
Emulsion properties and related know-how to attain them --
Suspension formulation --
pt. 2. Health applications --
Emulsins as drug delivery systems --
Parenteral fat emulsions: structure, stability, and applications --
Use of emulsions as topical drug delivery systems --
Vesicles as a tool for dermal and transdermal drug delivery --
Ophthalmic emulsions and suspensions --
Administration of emulsions to the gastrointestinal tract --
Dry absorbed emulsions --
Nanosuspensions for the formulation of poorly soluble drugs --
Pharmaceutical suspensions and their applications --
pt. 3. Tools and methods for experiments and measurements --
Experimental design in emulsion and suspension formulations: theoretical aspects --
Applications of experimental methodology to emulsions and suspensions --
Rheology of suspensions and emulsions --
Determination of size distributions of submicrometer particle dispersions by photon correlations spectroscopy.