Nanoparticulates As Drug Carriers

Written by key experts in the field of nanomedicine, this book provides a broad introduction to the important field of nanomedicine and application of nanotechnology for drug delivery. It covers up-to-date information regarding various nanoparticulate drug delivery systems, describes the various opportunities for the application of nanoparticular drug carriers in different areas of clinical medicine, and analyzes already available information on their clinical applications. This book can be used as an advanced textbook by graduate students and young scientists and clinicians at the early stages of their career. It is also suitable for non-experts from related areas of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, physiology, experimental and clinical medicine, and pharmaceutical sciences, who are interested in general problems of drug delivery and drug targeting, as well as in more specialized topics of using nanoparticulate-mediated drug delivery approaches in the individual areas of clinical medicine. Prof Torchilin is an expert in Nanomedicine and a recipient of numerous awards including the Lenin Prize in Science & Technology of the former USSR, membership in the European Academy of Sciences, and AAPS Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery. He served as an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School before joining Northeastern University as the Chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Contents: Nanoparticle Flow: Implications for Drug Delivery (A Florence); Polymer Micelles as Drug Carriers (A Kabanov); Lipoproteins as Pharmaceutical Carriers (D R Lu); Lipid Nanocapsules as New Drug Delivery Systems (J-P Benoit); Dendrimers as Nanoparticular Drug Carriers (D Tomalia); Cells and Cell Ghosts as Drug Carriers (J Lanao); Magnetic Nanoparticles as Drug Carriers (U Hafeli); Liposomal Drug Carriers in Cancer Therapy (A Gabizon); Nanocarriers for Targeting Lymphatics (W Phillips); Nanoparticular Carriers for Ocular Drug Delivery (M Alonso); and other papers. Key Feature Chapters are written by leading scientists such as Prof Gregoriadis, Prof Moghimi, Prof Kabanov, Prof Tomalia, Prof Couvreur, Prof Mueller, Prof Gabizon and Prof Kreuter Readership: Graduate students, academics in nanomedicine, clinicians, pharmacologists, pharmacists, bioengineers, researchers in biotechnology and diagnostic imaging.Torchilin is the author of 'Nanoparticulates As Drug Carriers ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781860946301 and ISBN 1860946305.