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Drug delivery to the lung / edited by Hans Bisgaard, Chris O'Callaghan, Gerald C. Smaldone.

Title: Drug delivery to the lung / edited by Hans Bisgaard, Chris O'Callaghan, Gerald C. Smaldone.
Publication: New York : Marcel Dekker, c2002.

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Description

xvi, 511 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Lung biology in health and disease ; 162

Uniform Title

Lung biology in health and disease ; v. 162.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Congress.

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Contents

Introduction / Claude Lenfant -- 1. The History of Inhaled Drug Therapy / Chris O'Callaghan, Ola Nerbrink and Mika T. Vidgren -- 2. Basic Principles of Particle Behavior in the Human Respiratory Tract / Joachim Heyder and Magnus U. Svartengren -- 3. Structure and Function of the Respiratory System: Developmental Aspects and Their Relevance to Aerosol Therapy / Janet Stocks and Alison A. Hislop -- 4. In Vitro Testing a Pharmaceutical Aerosols and Predicting Lung Deposition from In Vitro Measurements / Andy Clark and Lars Borgstrom -- 5. Factors Affecting the Clinical Outcome of Aerosol Therapy / Eric Derom and Lars Thorsson -- 6. In Vivo Measurements of Lung Dose / Mark L. Everard and Myrna B. Dolovich -- 7. Targeting the Lungs with Therapeutic Aerosols / Pieter Zanen and Beth L. Laube -- 8. Nebulization: The Device and Clinical Considerations / Gerald C. Smaldone and Peter N. LeSouef -- 9. New Nebulizer Technology / John H. Dennis and Ola Nerbrink --
10. The Metered-Dose Inhaler / Chris O'Callaghan and Paul Wright -- 11. Propellants / Martyn R. Partridge and Ashley A. Woodcock -- 12. Spacer Devices / Hans Bisgaard, Jacob Anhoj and Johannes H. Wildhaber -- 13. Dry-Powder Inhalers / Lars Borgstrom, Hans Bisgaard and Chris O'Callaghan / [et al.] -- 14. Compliance with Asthma Medicine / Michael E. Hyland and Cynthia S. Rand.

ISBN

0824705416 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001047125

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries