What you’ll find inside
Applied Biopharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics, Seventh Edition, by Leon Shargel and Andrew B. C. Yu, explains how drug-product properties and pharmacokinetic processes shape medicine exposure in the body. The text connects foundational models with practical questions about absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, bioavailability, and dosage regimens. Its examples and problems are intended to help pharmacy and pharmaceutical-science students apply quantitative concepts to drug products and therapy.
What does this biopharmaceutics textbook cover?
The book introduces how drugs move through the body and how raw data can be used to estimate the models and parameters that describe those processes. It discusses drug-product equivalency, bioavailability, bioequivalence, pharmacodynamics, and factors that influence product performance. These topics help readers connect formulation and absorption to measured drug concentrations and subsequent pharmacokinetic interpretation.
How does the seventh edition connect calculations with dosage design?
Chapters combine explanation with practice problems and clinical examples. Readers work with pharmacokinetic parameters to understand and evaluate dosing regimens, then consider how those decisions change across multiple-dosage schedules and patient populations. The contents also address renal and hepatic impairment, pediatric, geriatric, and obese populations, and other special considerations that affect dose adjustment.
Who may use Applied Biopharmaceutics & Pharmacokinetics?
This edition is relevant to pharmacy, pharmaceutical-science, and related health programs that teach drug absorption and disposition quantitatively. It can serve as a course text or reference for reviewing calculations and the assumptions behind common models. Because drug evidence and prescribing information change, use current product labeling and professional guidance for clinical decisions; an older textbook should not be treated as a current dosing source.
Edition, eBook identifier, and preview
McGraw Hill lists the seventh edition and identifies eBook ISBN 9780071829649. The PDF copyright page uses the same number for the eBook and separately lists 9780071830935 for the print version. The PDF contains 929 pages, matching bibliographic listings for the eBook. Compare the edition and format with your syllabus, then open the four-image preview tab to inspect the sample file.
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