Theory & Practice in Novel Drug Delivery System (PB)

This book is a unique reading material to those who are involved in reading and working with novel concept based controlled drug delivery systems. It consists of 22 chapters including nanoparticles, resealed erythrocytes, microspheres, microemulsions, ultraemulsions, matrix tablets, gastroretentive systems, colon specific drug delivery systems, cyclodextrin complexes, drug loaded carrier(s) surface modified systems, conjugation methodologies and many more. Each chapter introduces the concept and a brief review of progress in a particular area of drug delivery systems to familiarise the students with concept so that they can follow the methodology with competence. Also, there are number of protocol(s) within a chapter which can be chosen to be worked on practically depending on the availability of material and instrumentation facility for desired characterization studies. It is thus a very useful concise resource on novel and contemporary drug delivery systems that provides theoretical and practical aspects of a drug delivery system under references.