Pharmacy & Drugs / Nanotechnology
Nanobiomedicine Vol. 6: Drug Nanocarriers
Description
Nanocarriers, propounded amongst the finest nanotechnological developments, have demonstrated proven ability to revolutionize the delivery of pharmaceuticals, proteins, DNA-based therapeutics agents, imaging agents and neutraceuticals. Due to their immense potential in medicine, different aspects of nanocarriers, including the materials to prepare nanocarriers, their properties and applications, have attracted a great deal of attention of the scientists across the globe. This volume encompasses the technology-specific aspects and issues in the development of drug nanocarrier systems and their evaluation in terms of efficacy, safety and toxicity in different preclinical and clinical situations. A wide assortment of carrier systems for topical, transdermal and intranasal drug delivery has been elaborated upon. The targeting potential of nanocarriers to the intricate organs like brain as well as directly to the mitochondria has also been covered in this volume. Efforts have been made to collect and compile the most recent information and present it in a very lucid manner. The emerging advancements on drug nanocarriers encompassed in the book will certainly provide significant know-how to the researchers, particularly the juvenile ones, to look upon the subject critically and carefully, and utilize their immense potential in healthcare
Table of Contents
Foreword to the Series; Foreword to the Volume; Editorial Members; About the Editors; List of Contributors; About the Series; Preface; Anatomical, Physiological and Biochemical Barriers to Drug Nanocarriers (INDIA); Lipid-Based Self-Emulsifying Formulations with Enhanced Bioavailability Potential (INDIA); Injectable Lipidic Nanostructured Systems for Site-Specific Delivery of Drugs (INDIA) ; Revisiting Lipidic Nanoparticles as Drug Carriers for NSAIDs: Ibuprofen as an Instance (ITALY, PORTUGAL, THAILAND) ; Novel Carrier Approaches for Topical and Transdermal Drug Delivery (INDIA) ; Ethosomes for Optimized Skin Delivery (INDIA) ; Lipophilic Triphenylphosphonium Cations and their Nanocarriers: Potential in Cancer Targeting (USA); Functionalized Polymeric Nanoparticles for Delivery of Bioactives (INDIA) ; Brain Targeting Using Surface-Functionalized Nanocarriers (INDIA); Nanoplexes as Novel Drug Delivery Vehicles (INDIA, US); Nanocarriers for Intranasal Drug Delivery (INDIA, OMAN); Non-Viral Nano-Wagons: A Quest for Safe and Effective Gene Therapy (INDIA); Dendrimers as Nanobiopolymers in Cancer Chemotherapy (INDIA); Herbosomes (INDIA); Novel Nanotechnology – Based Drug Delivery Vehicles: An Overview (INDIA); Appendix-I: Table of Contents of NanoBioMedicine Series (Vols. 1 to 6); Subject Inde