
Drug Delivery
Advances and Emerging Strategies
- 1st Edition - November 5, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Kevin Ita
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 8 7 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 8 8 - 8
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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Request a sales quoteDrug 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.
- 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
Pharma researchers in the academia, industry and government.
- Title of Book
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Oral drug delivery
- Chapter 3. Pulmonary and lung-targeted drug delivery systems
- Lung-targeted drug delivery
- Chapter 4. Vaginal drug delivery
- Chapter 5. Ocular drug delivery
- Chapter 6. Nasal drug delivery
- Chapter 7. Drug delivery to the colon
- Chapter 8. Transdermal and transungual drug delivery systems
- Chapter 9. Brain and nose-to-brain drug delivery systems
- Nose-to-brain delivery of drugs
- Chapter 10. Vaccine delivery systems
- Chapter 11. Drug delivery to the myocardium
- Chapter 12. Renal drug delivery
- Chapter 13. Drug delivery to the liver
- Chapter 14. Drug delivery to the pancreas
- Chapter 15. Buccal and sublingual drug delivery systems
- Sublingual drug delivery
- Chapter 16. Injectable drug delivery systems
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 5, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 400
- No. of pages (eBook): 400
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443267871
- eBook ISBN: 9780443267888
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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).
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Professor of Pharmaceutics, Touro University California, USARead Drug Delivery on ScienceDirect