Design and Development of New Nanocarriers

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-12-813627-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 766 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1538 g

Design and Development of New Nanocarriers focuses on the design and development of new nanocarriers used in pharmaceutical applications that have emerged in recent years. In particular, the pharmaceutical uses of microfluidic techniques, supramolecular design of nanocapsules, smart hydrogels, polymeric micelles, exosomes and metal nanoparticles are discussed in detail. Written by a diverse group of international researchers, this book is a valuable reference resource for those working in both biomaterials science and the pharmaceutical industry.

Zielgruppe

<p>Pharmaceutical scientists, biomaterials scientists, toxicologists, biomedical engineers, medicinal chemists and postgraduate students specializing in the areas of nanomedicine, bionanomaterials and nanotechnology applications in healthcare.</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grumezescu, Alexandru Mihai

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizintechnik, Biomedizintechnik, Medizinische Werkstoffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Bilayer-Based Drug Carriers: Liposomes, polymersomes and niosomes 2. Recent advances in micellar-like polyelectrolyte/protein complexes: design and development of biopharmaceuticals 3. Calixarene-based micelles: properties and applications 4. Preparation of Janus Nanoparticles and its Application in Drug Delivery 5. Supramolecular design of hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymeric nanoparticles 6. Cationic Polyelectrolyte-Biopolymer Complex Hydrogel Particles for Drug Delivery 7. Smart micelleplexes: An overview of a promising and potential nanocarrier for alternative therapies 8. Polymeric Micelles as a Versatile Tool in Oral Chemotherapy 9. Mixed micelles as drug delivery nanocarriers 10. Amphiphilic block copolymers based micelles for drug delivery 11. Synthesis and evolution of polymeric nanoparticles: development of an improved gene delivery system 12. Protein and drug imprinted nanostructures as controlled delivery tools 13. Application of Complex Coacervates in Controlled Delivery 14. Hydrogels: biomedical uses 15. Development of nanocapsules derived from viral capsid proteins for medical applications 16. Layer-by-Layer coated drug-core nanoparticles as versatile delivery platforms 17. Effect of a-cyclodextrin Nanoparticles on the Structure of Iodine Complexes with Polypeptides and Alkali Metal Halogenides and on the Mechanisms of their Anti-HIV and Anti-cancer Activity 18. Nanocarriers for the delivery of Temozolomide in the treatment of Gliobastoma: A review

Über Autor(innen)

Grumezescu, Alexandru Mihai
Dr. Grumezescu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, in the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, with a second affiliation to the Faculty of Medical Engineering, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. He is an experienced and oft-published researcher and editor in the field of nano and biomaterials, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of three journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience, and Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Bulletin. He also serves as editor or guest editor for several notable journals. Dr. Grumezescu has published 150 peer-reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, 6 co-authored books and 11 edited books.