Dermal Drug Selection and Development An Industrial Perspective /
The authors show how the pharmaceutical industry faces the development of dermal drugs and provide the only book of its kind that describes how the industry develops and selects dermal drugs, complete with the challenges and opportunities of the field. Delivery of drugs through the skin has been an...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59504-7 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Choosing the topical drug candidate
- Key factors affecting the efficacy of a topical drug candidate
- Topical vs. Oral/systemic Drug discovery
- Assessing drug concentration in skin
- Assessing Topical efficacy
- Assessing the therapeutic index
- Topical vehicle selection
- Topical drug development strategies
- Topical drug candidate selection criteria and cascade
- Selecting a dermal drug candidate
- Conclusions and perspectives.