Recent technological advances in oral drug delivery - a review.
Despite disadvantages, oral drug delivery remains the preferred route of drug delivery. Novel technologies with improved performance, patient compliance, and enhanced quality have emerged in the recent past. Oral fast-dispersing dosage forms, three-dimensional Printing (3DP) and electrostatic coating are a few examples of a few existing technologies with the potential to accommodate various physico-chemical, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics of drugs. This article provides a comprehensive review of these three technologies.
Sastry
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Pharmaceutical R&D Yamanouchi Pharma Technologies, Inc. 1050 Arastradero Road Palo Alto CA 94304 USA.
Nyshadham
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