edited by Françoise Nielloud, Gilberte Marti-Mestres
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Marcel Dekker,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2000
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xi, 637 p.) :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
cm
SERIES
Series Title
Drugs and the pharmaceutical sciences ;
ISSN of Series
v. 105
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 628-630) index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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