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PHARMACEUTICS CHAPTER-WISE PDF NOTES ER20-11T
Chapter 1
- History of the profession of Pharmacy in India in relation to Pharmacy education, industry, pharmacy practice, and various professional associations.
- Pharmacy as a career
- Pharmacopoeia: Introduction to IP, BP, USP, NF, and Extra Pharmacopoeia.
- Salient features of the Indian Pharmacopoeia
Chapter 2
- Packaging materials: Types, selection criteria, advantages and disadvantages of glass, plastic, metal, rubber as packaging materials
Chapter 3
- Pharmaceutical aids: Organoleptic (Colouring, flavouring, and sweetening) agents
- Preservatives: Definition, types with examples and uses
Chapter 4
- Unit operations: Definition, objectives/applications, principles, construction, and workings of:
- Size reduction: hammer mill and ball mill
- Size separation: Classification of powders according to IP, Cyclone separator, Sieves and standards of sieves
- Mixing: Double cone blender, Turbine mixer, Triple roller mill and Silverson mixer homogenizer
- Filtration: Theory of filtration, membrane filter and sintered glass filter
- Drying: working of fluidized bed dryer and process of freeze drying
- Extraction: Definition, Classification, method, and applications
Chapter 5
- Tablets – coated and uncoated, various modified tablets (sustained release, extended-release, fast dissolving, multilayered, etc.)
- Capsules – hard and soft gelatine capsules
- Liquid oral preparations – solution, syrup, elixir, emulsion,
- suspension, dry powder for reconstitution
- Topical preparations – ointments, creams, pastes, gels, liniments and lotions, suppositories, and pessaries Nasal preparations, Ear preparations
- Powders and granules – Insufflations, dusting powders, effervescent powders, and effervescent granules
- Sterile formulations – Injectables, eye drops and eye ointments
- Immunological products: Sera, vaccines, toxoids, and their manufacturing methods.
Chapter 6
- Basic structure, layout, sections, and activities of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants
- Quality control and quality assurance: Definition and concepts of quality control and quality assurance, current good manufacturing practice (cGMP), Introduction to the concept of calibration and validation
Chapter 7
- Novel drug delivery systems: Introduction, Classification with examples, advantages, and challenges