Targeted drug delivery : concepts and design /: concepts and design. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Padma V. Devarajan, Sanyog Jain, editors.
• Editors: Devarajan, Padma V; Jain, Sanyog
• Contents: Part I: Targeted drug delivery: basic concepts and advances. Targeted drug delivery systems: strategies and challenges -- Part II: Disease-based targeting. Recent advances in tumor targeting approaches -- Infectious diseases: need for targeted drug delivery -- Part III: Organ-based targeting. Image-guided delivery of therapeutics to the brain -- Inhalation therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis -- Hepatic targeting: physiological basis and design strategy -- Part IV: Cell- and cell organelle-based targeting. Targeted drug delivery to the mitochondria -- Targeted delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics via nonviral vectors -- Mucosal vaccine delivery and M cell targeting -- Part V: Physicochemical approaches for targeting -- Stimuli responsive carriers: magnetically, thermally and pH assisted drug delivery -- Prodrug conjugate strategies in targeted anticancer drug delivery systems -- Polymer-drug conjugates for targeted drug delivery -- Part VI: Carrier-based approaches for targeted drug delivery. Functionalized lipid particulates in targeted drug delivery -- Nanoemulsion in drug targeting -- Multifunctional polymeric nano-carriers in targeted drug delivery -- Polymeric micelles in targeted drug delivery -- Dendritic polymers in targeted drug delivery -- Inorganic nanoparticles in targeted drug delivery and imaging -- Carbon-based nanomaterials for targeted drug delivery and imaging -- Part VII: Advanced characterization techniques for nanocarriers. Physical and biophysical characteristics of nanoparticles: potential impact on targeted drug delivery -- In vivo imaging techniques of the nanocarriers used for targeted drug delivery -- Part VIII: Nanotoxicology and regulatory issues -- Evaluation of lung toxicity of biodegradable nanoparticles -- Nanotoxicology: contemporary issues and future directions.
• Publisher Details: Cham [St Paul, MN] : Springer Controlled Release Society
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 790 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 615/.6; Medicine; Drug targeting; Drug delivery systems; MEDICAL -- Pharmacology; Drug delivery systems; Drug targeting; Drug Delivery Systems -- methods; Drug Carriers; Molecular Targeted Therapy -- methods; Pharmaceutical technology; Medical -- Pharmacy; Pharmaceutical technology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319113555; 3319113550
• Related ISBNs: 9783319113548; 3319113542
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from resource home page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2015).
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