Pharmaceutical emulsions and suspensions
By: edited by Françoise Nielloud, Gilberte Marti-Mestres.
Contributors: Nielloud, Françoise.; Marti-Mestres, Gilberte.
Series: Drugs and the pharmaceutical sciences -- v. 105.
Publisher: Marcel Dekker, Inc.; CRC Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 637
Subjects: Emulsions (Pharmacy); Suspensions (Chemistry); Emulsions -- chemistry; Drug Carriers; Drug Delivery Systems -- methods; Suspensions -- chemistry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt.1. Basic concepts; title: Main surfactants used in the pharmaceutical field; title: Formulatin concepts for the emulsion maker; title: Emulsion properties and related know-how to attain them; title: Suspension formulation; title: Pt.2. Health applications; title: Emulsins as drug delivery systems; title: Parenteral fat emulsions: structure, stability, and applications; title: Use of emulsions as topical drug delivery systems; title: Vesicles as a tool for dermal and transdermal drug delivery; title: Ophthalmic emulsions and suspensions; title: Administration of emulsions to the gastrointestinal tract; title: Dry absorbed emulsions; title: Nanosuspensions for the formulation of poorly soluble drugs; title: Pharmaceutical suspensions and their applications; title: Pt.3. Tools and methods for experiments and measurements; title: Experimental design in emulsion and suspension formulations: theoretical aspects; title: Applications of experimental methodology to emulsions and suspensions; title: Rheology of suspensions and emulsions; title: Determination of size distributions of submicrometer particle dispersions by photon correlations spectroscopy.