Phenolics have been found to possess potent biological activities including hypolipidemic, anticancer, anti-HIV, anti-malarial and anti-asthmatic activities. Similarly resveratrol, a trihydroxy-(E)-stilbene has been shown to act as an effective AhR antagonist and is in advanced stage of clinical trial for treatment of various cancer. Similarly neolignans show antioxidant and cytotoxic activities (such as podophylotoxin shows anticancerous activity). Besides their pharmacological importance, phenolics are also widely employed as flavors, pigments, and nutritional components in the food...

Pulsatile Drug Delivery Systems are gaining a lot of interest as these systems deliver the drug at specific time as per the pathophysiological need of the disease, thus providing spatial and temporal delivery and increasing patient compliance. Diseases wherein such delivery systems are promising include asthma, peptic ulcer, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, attention deficit syndrome in children, and hypercholesterolemia. This book will cover various approaches that have been developed to control drug delivery profile with different polymeric systems like time controlling, internal stimuli...