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Drug Delivery

Advances and Emerging Strategies

  • 1st Edition - November 5, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Kevin Ita
  • Language: English

Drug Delivery: Advances and Emerging Strategies begins with an overview on drug delivery, setting the stage for detailed discussions on oral, pulmonary, vaginal, ocular, and nasal… Read more

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Description

Drug Delivery: Advances and Emerging Strategies begins with an overview on drug delivery, setting the stage for detailed discussions on oral, pulmonary, vaginal, ocular, and nasal dedicated sections. Chapters cover colonic, transdermal, transungual, brain, and nose-to-brain delivery, but also focus on vaccine delivery and organ specific delivery routes via the myocardium, kidney, liver, pancreas, buccal, sublingual, and injectable drug delivery systems. The book offers an integrated, up-to-date overview of drug delivery methods, technologies, and approaches, targeting body systems and organs. Researchers and advanced students in pharmaceutical science will benefit from this consolidated outlook.

Key features

  • Discusses advanced drug delivery systems and the most recent research developments
  • Organizes by body system and target organ
  • Explores organ physiology and drug flow challenges

Readership

Pharma researchers in the academia, industry and government.

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Oral Drug Delivery

3. Pulmonary and Lung-targeted Drug Delivery

4. Vaginal Drug Delivery

5. Ocular Drug Delivery

6. Nasal Drug Delivery

7. Drug Delivery to the Colon

8. Transdermal and Transungual Drug Delivery

9. Brain and Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery

10. Vaccine Delivery Systems

11. Drug Delivery to the Myocardium

12. Renal Drug Delivery

13. Drug Delivery to the Liver

14. Drug Delivery to the Pancreas

15. Buccal and Sublingual Drug Delivery

16. Injectable Drug Delivery Systems

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 5, 2024
  • Language: English

About the author

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Kevin Ita

Dr. Ita holds a PhD in Pharmaceutics. His area of expertise is transdermal drug delivery. He has over 40 publications in this area and teaches Pharmaceutics to both first- and second year pharmacy students at the College of Pharmacy, Touro University, California. He joined the University in 2006 as an Assistant Professor and is now a Full Professor. He was awarded an ICRETT Fellowship by the International Union Against Cancer (IUCC).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Pharmaceutics, Touro University California, USA

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