Aqueous Polymeric Coatings for Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms, Third Edition (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Contributors: James McGinity (Editor); Linda A. Felton (Editor)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: January 9, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780849387890
Subjects: Science; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Pharmacology; Medical / Pharmacology; Chemistry - General; Textiles & Polymers; Aqueous polymeric coatings in pharmaceutical technology; Coatings; Dosage Forms; Drugs
First sentence: The literature on sustained or controlled release medications has recently been extended to new drug delivery systems employing polymeric coatings or matrix materials and a class of colloidal or near-colloidal aqueous polymer dispersions as rate-limiting film membranes.