TY - BOOK AU - Ibrahim Mohammed Ahmed Abdulwahid Alsharabi AU - Ahmed Abdelbary Abdelrahman , AU - Ahmed Abdelfatah Aboelwafa , TI - A Pharmaceutical study on certain aminosalicylates / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ibrahim Mohammed Ahmed Abdulwahid Alsharabi , KW - Colonic targeting KW - Mesalazine KW - Ulcerative colitis N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Pharmacy - Department of Industrial Pharmacy; Issued also as CD N2 - The recommended first - line therapy for the treatment of active symptoms induction of remission and maintenance of remission in patients with mild - to moderate ulcerative colitis (UC) is the anti inflammatory agent 5 - aminosalicylic acid (5- ASA or mesalazine ) . 5- ASA acts topically on the colonic mucosa but when orally administered it is extensively and rapidly absorbed in the small intestine UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -