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This chapter covers the fundamentals of nasal drug delivery. Anatomical barriers to drug delivery, examples and functions of commonly used excipients, and device design are reviewed. Analytical procedures relevant to testing the performance of nasal drug products are also introduced.
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Brunaugh, A.D., Smyth, H.D.C., Williams III, R.O. (2019). Nasal Drug Delivery. In: Essential Pharmaceutics. AAPS Introductions in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31745-4_12
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