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Drug Pathways and Chemical Concepts
Prof. Sally Boudinot
Penicillin Drug Delivery
We rely on drugs to make us healthy when we are sick and to keep us healthy when we are well. We can: |
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but the trick is to make these drugs chemically available to our body's systems as they are needed. |
| Penicillin represents a challenge for drug delivery. It is a relatively strong acid, and, as we will see, is unstable in the stomach. How does the science of pharmaceutics make the drug avalable to our bodies? |
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Prof. Sally Boudinot
College of Pharmacy
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
sallyb@rx.uga.edu
