This two volume Second Edition describes the anatomical, physiological, pharmaceutical, and technological aspects of delivery routes, found in areas like:

• Oral
• Ocular
• Dermal and transdermal
• Vaginal
• Colonic
• Oral mucosal
• Nasal
• Pulmonary

Providing insight and critical assessment of the many available and emerging modified release drug delivery systems for their current and future value, topics include:

• Intellectual property rights and regulatory issues and challenges
• osmotic systems and Qtrol. Qdis. Matrix Systems
• thiolated polymers for CR, Oradur. IDD technology, and chronotherapy technology
• Oral-lyn (RapidMist Technology)
• Dentipatch drug delivery system
• ORAVESCENT: a novel technology for the transmucosal delivery of drugs
• Egalet and COLAL technologies

This two volume Second Edition describes the anatomical, physiological, pharmaceutical, and technological aspects of delivery routes, found in areas like: Oral Ocular Dermal and transdermal Vaginal Colonic Oral mucosal Nasal Pulmonary Providing insight and critical assessment of the many available and emerging modified release drug delivery systems for their current and future value, topics include: modified drug release landscape; academic, regulatory, and intellectual property viewpoints I-vation Sustained Release Intravitreal System ViaNase Intranasal Device and controlled particle dispersion technology Platform Microneedles for drug delivery, PassPort system, Dot-Matrix technology, ultrasound, iontophoretic and technologies, DiretcHaler Nasal technology, intravaginal ring systems, Supravail, Vagisite, C-Vad (TM) Vaginal Insert, and 'Smart' Vaginal Delivery Systems the AERx (R) Pulmonary Drug Delivery System AAD-Adaptive aerosol delivery technology nebulizer technologies and dry powder inhaler systems