Dosage Forms, Formulation Developments and Regulations

hard work, we are delighted to publish the first volume of the three-volume series.

We hope that the students of pharmacy will find it useful and informative. We

could have not achieved this without the support and assistance of various people

in our lives who are closely involved with this book series.

We, the editors, would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the following

people who made this book possible.

We would really like to communicate our special thanks to all of the contrib-

uting authors for delivering their invaluable contributions of quality chapters in a

timely manner, allowing us to publish this book.

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ment, and love. They understood when we had to work late or miss some family

events during the editing time, and they never complained.

We would like to express our gratitude to the Elsevier Inc., Andre Gerhard

Wolff, Shivangi Mishra (Editorial Project Manager) in especially for their help

and kind support in the book-editing process.

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