Surface Activity in Drug Action
- 1st Edition, Volume 21 - March 1, 2005
- Latest edition
- Editors: R.C. C. Srivastava, A.N. N. Nagappa
- Language: English
Surface activity is present in living systems; for example in body fluid or cell soup and molecules of surface-active nature are crucial to living matter and its organization.… Read more
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Description
Description
Key features
Key features
* Includes contributions from prominent names in the field, such as Bhise and Subrahmanyam
* Contains a general account of the application of surface activity in therapeutics
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Surface activity of drugs
2.1. Analgesics
2.2. Antimicorbials
2.3. Drugs acting on autonomic nervous system
2.4. Antihistamines
2.5. Drugs affecting renal and cardiovascular function
2.6. Drugs acting on central nervous system
2.7. Miscellaneous
Chapter 3. Theories of drug action
3.1. Commonly used terms
3.2. Theories of drug action
3.3. Occupancy theory
Chapter 4. The liquid membrane hypothesis of drug action
4.1. The liquid membrane hypothesis
4.2. The liquid membrane hypothesis of drug action
Chapter 5. Liquid membranes as biomimetic system
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Liquid membranes from cholesterol, lecithin
and lecithin-cholesterol mixtures
5.3. Mimicking light-induced transport
5.4. Hydrophilic Pathways
5.5. Mimicking electrical excitability of liquid membrane bilayers
Chapter 6. Role of liquid membranes in drug action-experimental studies
6.1. The design of experiments
6.2. Experimental studies
Chapter 7. Assessment of the Hypothesis
7.1. Implications of the hypothesis
7.2. The liquid membrane hypothesis vis-a-vis existing-theories of drug actions
Chapter 8. Application of surface activity in therapeutics
8.1. Drug Absorption
8.2. Solublizing agents
8.3. Dissolution
8.4. Drug stabilization
8.5. Surfactants in drug targeting
8.6. Surfactants as wetting agents
8.7. Synergistic effects
8.8. Prodrugs
8.9. Surfactants and drug delivery
8.10.Miscellaneous
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 21
- Published: March 1, 2005
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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