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without the inefficiencies and unwanted effects of systemic drug delivery in addition, it provides an enormous surface area and a relatively low enzymatic environment for ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis the absorption of drugs to treat systemic diseases table inhaled medications have been available for many years for the treatment of lung diseases inhalational delivery has been widely accepted as being the optimal route of administration of first line therapy for asthmatic and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases drug formulation plays ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis an important role in producing an effective inhalable medication in addition to being ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis pharmacologically active, it is important that a drug be efficiently side ffects of discontinuing desyrel delivered into ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis the lungs, to the appropriate site of action and remain in the lungs until the desired pharmacological effect occurs a drug designed to treat a ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis systemic disease, such as insulin for diabetes, must be deposited in the lung periphery to ensure maximum systemic bioavailability for gene therapy, anti cancer or ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis anti infective treatment, cellular uptake and prolonged residence in the lungs of the drug may be required to obtain the optimal therapeutic effect thus, a ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis formulation that is retained in the lungs for the desired length of time and avoids the clearance mechanisms of the lung may be necessary the ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis human lung contains airways and approximately million alveoli with a surface area of ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis m, equivalent to that of a tennis court as a major port ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis of table advantages of pulmonary delivery of drugs to treat respiratory and systemic disease treatment of respiratory diseasestreatment of systemic diseases deliver high drug concentrations directly to the disease site minimizes risk of systemic side effects rapid clinical response bypass the barriers to therapeutic efficacy, such as poor gastrointestinal absorption and firstpass metabolism in the liver achieve a similar or superior therapeutic ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis effect at a fraction of the systemic dose for example, oral salbutamol mg is therapeutically equivalent to xg by mdi a noninvasive needlefree delivery system suitable for a wide range of substances from small molecules to very large proteins enormous absorptive surface area m and a highly permeable membrane to ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis fim thickness in the alveolar region large molecules with very low absorption rates can be absorbed in significant quantities the slow mucociliary clearance in the lung periphery results in prolonged residency in the lung a less harsh, low enzymatic environment avoids firstpass metabolism reproducible absorption kinetics pulmonary delivery is independent ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis of dietary complications, extracellular enzymes and interpatient metabolic differences that affect gastrointestinal absorption entry, the lung has evolved to prevent the invasion of unwanted airborne particles from entering into the body airway geometry, humidity, mucociliary clearance and alveolar macrophages play a vital role in maintaining the sterility of the lung, and consequently, they can be barriers to the therapeutic effectiveness of inhaled medications the size of the drug particle can play an important role in ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis avoiding the physiological barriers of the lung and targeting to the appropriate lung region fig nanoparticles are solid colloidal particles ranging in size from to nm studies have demonstrated that they are taken up by macrophages, cancer cells, ciprofloxacin surgical prophylaxis and epithelial cells their small size ensures the particles containing the active pharmacological ingredient will reach the alveolar regions however, the use of an aerosol delivery system that generates nanosized particles for inhalation, places these particles at risk of being exhaled, leaving very few drug particles to be deposited in the periphery of the lung residence time is not long enough for the particles to be deposited by sedimentation or diffusion aerosols as drug carriers diffusionseemntationinertia!