Pharmaceutical Excipients: Properties, Functionality, and Applications in Research and Industry

This book provides an overview of excipients, their functionalities in pharmaceutical dosage forms, regulation, and selection for pharmaceutical products formulation. It includes development, characterization methodology, applications, and up–to–date advances through the perspectives of excipients developers, users, and regulatory experts.     Covers the sources, characterization, and harmonization of excipients: essential information for optimal excipients selection in pharmaceutical development     Describes the physico–chemical properties and biological effects of excipients     Discusses chemical classes, safety and toxicity, and formulation     Addresses recent efforts in the standardization and harmonization of excipients INDICE: List of Contributors .Chapter 1: Excipient characterization David Good and Yongmei Wu .Chapter 2: Excipients for conventional oral solid dosage forms Umesh Kestur and Divyakant Desai .Chapter 3: Excipients and their functionality for enabling technologies in oral dosage forms Shreya Thakkar, Kunnal Sharma, Sakshi Khurana and Arvind Kumar Bansal .Chapter 4: Excipients used in biotechnology products Eva Y. Chi .Chapter 5: Excipient standards and harmonization R. Christian Moreton .Chapter 6: Regulatory information for excipients Christopher C. DeMerlis, Alexa Smith, David R. Schoneker .Chapter 7: Development of new excipients Karl Kolter, Felicitas Guth .Chapter 8: PATability of excipients Claudia Corredor .Index

• ISBN: 978-1-118-14564-7
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés