Modified-Release Drug Delivery Technology

This two volume Second Edition describes the anatomical, physiological, pharmaceutical, and technological aspects of delivery routes, found in areas like:

• Oral
• Ocular
• Dermal and transdermal
• Vaginal
• Colonic
• Oral mucosal
• Nasal
• Pulmonary

Providing insight and critical assessment of the many available and emerging modified release drug delivery systems for their current and future value, topics include:

• Intellectual property rights and regulatory issues and challenges
• osmotic systems and Qtrol. Qdis. Matrix Systems
• thiolated polymers for CR, Oradur. IDD technology, and chronotherapy technology
• Oral-lyn™ (RapidMist™ Technology)
• Dentipatch drug delivery system
• ORAVESCENT™: a novel technology for the transmucosal delivery of drugs
• Egalet and COLAL technologies.

CD Disc content is now a downloadable resource available at www.routledge.com/9781420044355.