Transport Processes in Pharmaceutical Systems (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Contributors: Gordon L. Amidon (Editor); Ping Lee (Editor); Elizabet Topp (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 727
ISBN-13: 9780824766108
Subjects: Pharmacology; Medical / Nursing; Biological transport; Transport theory; Medical; Pharmacy; Pharmacokinetics; Biochemistry; Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial; Drug Delivery Systems
First sentence: Mass transfer is the movement of the molecules of a fluid in space in response to applied driving forces.
Description: "This reference clearly pharmaceutical transport phenomena, demonstrating applications ranging from drug or nutrient uptake into vesicle or cell suspensions, drug dissolution and absorption across biological membranes, whole body kinetics, and drug release from polymer reservoirs and matrices to heat and mass transport in freeze-drying and hygroscopicity."--BOOK JACKET.