Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physiological factors affecting drug release and absorption in the gastrointestinal tract / Erik S�oderlind and Jennifer B. Dressman -- Drug transport mechanisms across the intestinal epithelium / Anna-Lena B. Ungell -- Gastrointestinal transit and drug absorption / Clive G. Wilson, Werner Weitschies, and James Butler -- Gut wall metabolism / Mary F. Paine -- Food effects on drug absorption and dosage form performance / Anette M�ullertz -- Oral drug absorption in pediatric populations / Andrea N. Edginton and Nikoletta Fotaki -- Gastrointestinal disease and dosage form performance / Vladan Milovic and J�urgen Stein -- The biopharmaceutics classification system : recent applications in pharmaceutical discovery, development, and regulation / Jennifer J. Sheng and Gordon L. Amidon -- Drug solubility in the gastrointestinal tract / Christos Reppas and Patrick Augustijns --

Permeability measurement / Joachim Brouwers ... [et al.] -- BCS : today and tomorrow / James E. Polli -- Dissolution testing to forecast in vivo performance of immediate-release formulations / Ekarat Jantratid and Maria Vertzoni -- Dissolution testing to forecast the in vivo performance of MR formulations / Sandra Klein -- Modified-release dosage forms : formulation screening in the pharmaceutical industry / Bertil Abrahamsson and Erik S�oderlind -- Immediate release oral dosage forms : formulation screening in the pharmaceutical industry / Yunhui Wu and Filippos Kesisoglou -- Computer models for predicting drug absorption / Neil Parrott and Thierry Lave -- In vivo bioequivalence assessment / Panos Macheras and Mira Symillides -- Biowaiving based on the BCS : a global comparision / Henrike Potthast -- Biowaiving based on in vitro-in vivo correlation / Vinod P. Shah.