A Primer on Dosage Form Design

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the design of dosage forms, design of controlled and sustained administration of therapeutic agents, with a total integration of basic concepts and application of fundamental principles of pre-formulation studies.

It is divided into seven chapters, ranging from pre-formulation studies and its principle factors used in the design of dosage forms to the validation methods, standard operating procedures, new product launch, process optimization, bio-availability, in-vivo evaluation are discussed in detail.

Salient Features:

• Written in simple, concise, and easy to understand language
• Simple and self-explanatory figures have been judiciously added wherever necessary
• All recent references have been consulted for various topics to keep the students updated with the latest advancement.
• Each topic has been covered in a very systematic and comprehensive manner
• Provides a wide knowledge and information on stability testing and studies of its protocols in a very concise manner.