Drug delivery refers to approaches, formulations,
technologies, and systems for transporting a pharmaceutical compound in the
body as needed to safely achieve its desired therapeutic effect. It may involve
scientific site targeting within the body, and also facilitating systemic
pharmacokinetics; in any case, it is typically concerned with both quantity and
duration of drug’s persistence in the system. Drug delivery is often executedvia a drug’s chemical formulation alone, but it may also involve in drug-devicecombination products. Drug delivery is a concept where much emphasis should be
given to dosage form and route of administration.
The choice of the delivery systems is to allow the safe
application of the drug with minimum losses. This suggests that the drug in theformulation must be chemically, physically and microbiologically stable.
Side-effects of the drug and drug interactions should be avoided or minimized
by the use of suitable drug delivery systems.
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