CAPSULES: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmaceutical scientists and manufacturing professionals! Capsules are solid dosage forms in which one or more medicinal and inert ingredients are enclosed in a small shell usually made up of gelatin. They are of…
LIQUID ORAL PREPARATIONS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmaceutical scientists and manufacturing professionals! Liquid oral preparations include solutions, syrups, suspensions, elixirs, and concentrates. These dosage forms are widely used in pharmaceuticals because of their ease of administration, especially for…
TOPICAL PREPARATIONS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmaceutical scientists and healthcare professionals! Topical preparations are meant to be applied on the external surfaces of the body, such as skin and other body cavities. They are used to treat pain…
NASAL PREPARATIONS & EAR PREPARATIONS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmaceutical scientists and healthcare professionals! Nasal preparations are administered in the nose in the form of solution or suspension in order to treat nasal conditions or symptoms. After being…
POWDERS AND GRANULES: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmaceutical scientists and manufacturing professionals! Powder is defined as a uniform and dry mixture of one or more finely divided particulate material. In the current scenario, powder is rarely used as…
STERILE FORMULATIONS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmaceutical scientists and healthcare professionals! Sterile formulations are those preparations that are free of any harmful microorganism and contamination. Parenterals are the sterile preparations that are administered through any route other than…
IMMUNOLOGICAL PRODUCTS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! The WHO defined immunisation as “the process by which an individual is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine.” Vaccines…
PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING PLANT, QUALITY CONTROL & QUALITY ASSURANCE: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmaceutical engineers and quality professionals! For setting up a pharmaceutical plant, it is necessary to make a plan and a plant layout once the location of…
NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmaceutical scientists and innovators! A Novel Drug Delivery System (NDDS) is referred to as a fresh approach that combines inventive development, formulations, new technologies, and novel methodologies for supplying pharmaceutical…
CLASSIFICATION OF DRUGS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacognosists and pharmaceutical scientists! A crude drug can be defined as a naturally occurring substance originating from plants, animals, minerals, or microbes that have therapeutic qualities in their raw or unprocessed…