Controlled Release in Oral Drug Delivery

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wilson, Clive G. (Editor), Crowley, Patrick J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Delivery Science and Technology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.

Controlling the rate, extent and time of a drug’s delivery can optimize its performance in many ways, relative to “immediate release” delivery. Such optimized design requires a broad knowledge base of topics such as gastro intestinal tract physiology, polymer science, and the mechanisms by which dru...