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Aulton’s Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines 6th Edition
Aulton’s Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines Sixth Edition:
The essential pharmaceutics textbook
One of the world’s best-known texts on pharmaceutics, Aulton’s Pharmaceutics offers a complete course in one book for students in all years of undergraduate pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences degrees.
Thoroughly revised, updated and extended by experts in their fields and edited by Professors Kevin Taylor and Michael Aulton, this new edition includes the science of formulation, pharmaceutical manufacturing and drug delivery.
All aspects of pharmaceutics are covered in a clear and readily accessible way and extensively illustrated throughout, providing an essential companion to the entire pharmaceutics curriculum from day one until the end of the course.
- Fully updated throughout, with the addition of new chapters, to reflect advances in formulation and drug delivery science, pharmaceutical manufacturing and medicines regulation
- Designed and written for newcomers to the design and manufacture of dosage forms
- Relevant pharmaceutical science covered throughout
- Includes the science of formulation and drug delivery
- Reflects current practices and future applications of formulation and drug delivery science to small drug molecules, biotechnology products and nanomedicines
- Key points boxes throughout
- Over 400 online multiple choice questions
- Fully updated throughout, with the addition of new chapters, to reflect advances in formulation and drug delivery science, pharmaceutical manufacturing and medicines regulation
- Designed and written for newcomers to the design and manufacture of dosage forms
- Relevant pharmaceutical science covered throughout
- Includes the science of formulation and drug delivery
- Reflects current practices and future applications of formulation and drug delivery science to small drug molecules, biotechnology products and nanomedicines
- Key points boxes throughout
- Over 400 online multiple-choice questions
Additional ISBNs:
∗ eText ISBN: 0702081566, 978-0702081569, 9780702081569
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Aulton’s Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicines 6th Edition:
Preface
Contributors
Acknowledgements
What is ‘pharmaceutics’?
Kevin MG Taylor and Michael E Aulton
1 Design of dosage forms
Peter York
2 Dissolution and solubility
Michael E Aulton
3 Properties of solutions
Michael E Aulton
4 Surfaces and interfaces
Graham Buckton
5 Disperse systems
David Attwood
6 Rheology
Christopher Marriott
7 Kinetics
Gareth R Williams and John P Malkinson
8 Solid-state properties
Graham Buckton
9 Particle size analysis
Kevin MG Taylor
10 Particle size reduction and size
separation
Michael E Aulton
11 Mixing
Andrew M Twitchell
12 Powder flow
Michael E Aulton
13 Fundamentals of microbiology
Lara-Marie Barnes and Geoffrey W Hanlon
14 Pharmaceutical applications of
microbiological techniques
Lara-Marie Barnes and Norman A Hodges
15 Action of physical and chemical agents
on microorganisms
Lara-Marie Barnes, Geoffrey W Hanlon and
Norman A Hodges
16 Principles of sterilization
Susannah E Walsh, Katie Laird and Jean-Yves
Maillard
17 Sterilization in practice
Jean-Yves Maillard, Katie Laird and Susannah E
Walsh
18 Introduction to biopharmaceutics
Marianne Ashford and Kevin MG Taylor
19 Gastrointestinal tract e physiology and
drug absorption
Marianne Ashford and Kevin MG Taylor
20 Bioavailability e physicochemical,
dosage form and formulation factors
Marianne Ashford, Kevin MG Taylor and
Hala M Fadda
21 Assessment of biopharmaceutical
properties
Marianne Ashford and Kevin MG Taylor
22 Dosage regimens
Soraya Dhillon and Nkiruka Umaru
23 Pharmaceutical preformulation
Simon Gaisford
24 Solutions
Sudaxshina Murdan
25 Clarification
Andrew M Twitchell
26 Suspensions
Susan A Barker
27 Emulsions and creams
Gillian M Eccleston
28 Ointments, pastes, gels, cutaneous
patches and topical sprays
Majella E Lane
29 Powders, granules and granulation
Michael E Aulton
30 Drying
Michael E Aulton and Satyanarayana Somavarapu
31 Tablets and compaction
Goeran Alderborn and Goeran Frenning
32 Modified-release oral drug delivery
Emma L McConnell, Christine M Madla and
Abdul W Basit
33 Coating of tablets and multiparticulates
Stuart C Porter
34 Continuous manufacturing of tablets
Aktham Aburub and Hala M Fadda
35 Hard capsules
Brian E Jones
36 Soft capsules
Stephen Tindal
37 Dissolution testing of solid dosage
forms
Ana Cristina Freire, Francesca KH Gavins and
Abdul W Basit
38 Parenteral drug delivery
Robert Lowe
39 Pulmonary drug delivery
Kevin MG Taylor
40 Nasal drug delivery
Gary P Martin and Alison B Lansley
41 Ocular drug delivery
Hala Fadda, Ashkan Khalili, Peng Tee Khaw and
Steve Brocchini
42 Otic drug delivery
Xu Liu, Hugh Smyth and Feng Zhang
43 Topical and transdermal drug delivery
Adrian C Williams
44 Rectal and vaginal drug delivery
Kalliopi Dodou
45 Preparation and delivery of
biopharmaceuticals
Ijeoma F Uchegbu and Andreas G Schatzlein
46 Pharmaceutical nanotechnology and
nanomedicines
Yvonne Perrie
47 Radiopharmaceuticals
Neil Hartman and Margaret Cooper
48 The formulation and manufacture of
plant medicines
G Brian Lockwood
49 Design and administration of medicines
for paediatric and geriatric patients
Catherine Tuleu, Mine Orlu and David Wright
50 Packaging
Sudaxshina Murdan
51 Chemical stability in dosage forms
Andrew R Barnes and Mark Santillo
52 Microbial contamination, spoilage and
preservation of medicines
Norman A Hodges and Lara-Marie Barnes
53 Product stability and stability testing
Paul Marshall
54 Pharmaceutical quality: the application
of pharmaceutics in medicines
regulation
Kevin MG Taylor, Majella E Lane and
Khalid A Sheikh
Self-assessment questions
Sudaxshina Murdan
Index
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