by J.T. Carstensen, Ph.D.

This guide is a handbook to powder dosage forms, hard shell capsules, milling, tablet, granulation and drying, stability, crystalline solids, DSC and amorphates, hygroscopicity, packaging, micromeritics, sustained release, and more.

Designed for use by development pharmacists, analytical chemists, production pharmacists, pharmacy professors, students, and other professionals in the field, it emphasizes U.S. validation principles:

• Interrelationship between formulation, manufacturing and existing USP and FDA guidelines
  
• Aspects of pharmaceutics important to IND and NDA submission and subsequent supplements

Contents

1. Absorption Attributes of a Dosage Form
   
2. Powder Dosage Forms, Densities and Blending
   
3. Hard Shell Capsules and Apparent Densities
   
4. Milling (Comminution)
   
5. Tablets
   
6. Granulation and Drying
   
7. Stability of Solid Dosage Forms
   
8. Crystalline Solids
   
9. DSC and Amorphates
   
10. Hygroscopic Potential of Solids
    
11. Pharmaceutical Packaging
    
12. Equilibrium Moisture Content of Solids
    
13. Binary Phase Diagrams
    
14. Micromeritics
    
15. Sustained Release Principles

Appendices
Index

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