Special Issue "What's on Board in Pharmaceutics"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Yvonne Perrie ^*
Chair in Pharmaceutics, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, UK
Website: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lhs/staff/az-index/perriey/
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Interests: liposomes; gene therapy; vaccines; colloidal systems
^* Prof. Dr. Yvonne Perrie is the Editor-in-Chief of Pharmaceutics

Submission

All manuscripts should be submitted to pharmaceutics@mdpi.org with a copy to the Guest Editor. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Pharmaceutics is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. For the first couple of issues, to be published in 2009 and 2010, the Article Processing Charges (APC) will be waived for well-prepared manuscripts. English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.

Type of Paper: Article
Title: Strategies for Developing Sensitive and Automated LC-MS/MS Assays of a Pharmaceutical Compound and Its Metabolite from Whole Blood Matrix
Author: Raymond Naxing Xu
Affiliation: Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Abbott Laboratories, Department R46W, Bldg. AP13A, 100 Abbott Park Road, Abbott Park, IL 60064-6126, USA

Type of Paper: Article
Title: The effects of pregnenolone 16α-carbonitrile dosing on digoxin pharmacokinetics and intestinal absorption in the rat.
Authors: Simon Lowes ^1,2 , Iain S. Haslam ^1,3, Britt-Marie Fihn ², Constanze Hilgendorf *^,2, Johan E. Karlsson ², Nicholas L. Simmons ¹ and Anna-Lena Ungell ²
Affiliations: ¹ Epithelial Research Group, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Medical School, Newcastle University, NE2 4HH, UK; ² Discovery Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca Research & Development, 431 83 Mölndal, Sweden;
³ Present address, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, AstraZeneca Research & Development, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 4TG, UK