Mucoadhesive drug delivery systems

ISBN-13: 9783659202384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 96 str.

Pranshu Tangri;N V Satheesh Madhav

Opis

This book focuses on defining the principles of bioadhesive delivery systems based on hydrogels to biological surfaces that are covered by mucus. An overview of the last decades discoveries on mucoadhesion and applications of mucoadhesive hydrogels as drug carriers is given. Techniques that are frequently used to study the adhesion forces and physicochemical linteractions between hydrogel, mucus, and the underlying mucosa are reviewed. Typical examples of applications of mucoadhesive hydrogels to mucosal routes of delivery are given. Finally, the perspectives of the application of these polymers in drug delivery are discussed.

O autorze

Pranshu Tangri earned his MPharm in Pharmaceutics. He is currentlyworking as Assistant Professor in GRD(PG)IMT,College Of Pharmacy, Dehradun, India. He has extensive research experience in novel drug delivery sytems having published more than 40 review and research articles and more than 35 abstracts in various journals and conferences