
Polysaccharide Hydrogels for Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine
- 1st Edition - September 14, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Tapan Kumar Giri, Bijaya Ghosh, Hemant Badwaik
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 3 5 1 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 7 9 4 - 6
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Request a sales quotePolysaccharide Hydrogels for Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine is an archival reference for researchers, students and scientists working on hydrogels based on microbial and animal sources. The book contains Information regarding their synthesis, characterization, and applications in the field of drug delivery and regenerative medicine. Each chapter addresses a separate polysaccharide hydrogel and its suitability in drug delivery and/or regenerative medicine. This is a novel resource that brings together a panel of highly accomplished experts in the field of natural polysaccharides to discuss basic causes and specific problems related to drug delivery and regenerative medicine.
- Presents detailed practical and theoretical concepts
- Includes fundamentals and methodologies for hydrogel preparation
- Covers all hydrogels and specific applications in the field of drug delivery and tissue engineering
Academics, scientists and researchers working in the healthcare sector and regenerative medicine, biotechnology, biomedicine, pharmacy, polymer chemistry, biochemistry, materials science and biomedical engineering, Students in biomedical
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Chapter 1. Microbial, animal, and biotechnologically originated polysaccharides
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Natural polysaccharides: Their sources and applications
- 1.3. Preparation of polysaccharides through biotechnological approach
- 1.4. Future prospect of the polysaccharide hydrogels in drug delivery and regenerative medicine
- 1.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Glycogen-based hydrogels
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Glycogen
- 2.3. Drug delivery applications
- 2.4. Tumor targeting
- 2.5. Tissue engineering applications
- 2.6. Conclusions
- Chapter 3. Hydrogel based on hyaluronic acid
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Dermatological applications
- 3.3. Ophthalmic applications
- 3.4. Hyaluronic acid injectable hydrogels
- 3.5. Inhalable hyaluronic acid hydrogels
- 3.6. Hyaluronic acid hydrogels and their applications in tissue engineering
- 3.7. Cartilage and bone regeneration
- 3.8. Wounds treatment
- 3.9. Hyaluronic acid hydrogel and neuroregeneration
- 3.10. Hyaluronic acid hydrogel and stem cells
- 3.11. Conclusions
- Chapter 4. Hydrogels based on chitosan
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Classification of hydrogel
- 4.3. Hydrogel preparation using chitosan
- 4.4. Application of chitosan-based hydrogel
- 4.5. Conclusion and prospects
- Chapter 5. Hydrogels based on heparin and its conjugates
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. HEP-based HGLs
- 5.3. Physically crosslinked HEP HGLs
- 5.4. Combined interaction (duel crosslinked) HGLs
- 5.5. Smart HGLs or stimuli-responsive HEP HGLs
- 5.6. Conclusion and prospective
- Chapter 6. Xanthan gum and its composite-based hydrogels
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Xanthan gum
- 6.3. Xanthan gum-based hydrogel in drug delivery applications
- 6.4. Xanthan gum-based hydrogel in regenerative medicine
- 6.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Gellan gum–based hydrogels
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Gellan gum–based hydrogel in drug delivery
- 7.3. Gellan gum–based hydrogel in regenerative medicine
- 7.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Hydrogels based on dextran
- 8.1. Introduction to hydrogel
- 8.2. Dextran
- 8.3. Gelation
- 8.4. Methods of preparations
- 8.5. Biomedical application
- 8.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Hydrogels based on scleroglucan
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Scleroglucan
- 9.3. Drug delivery applications of scleroglucan
- 9.4. Tissue engineering applications of scleroglucan hydrogel
- 9.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Pullulan-based hydrogels
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Drug delivery systems
- 10.3. Regenerative medicine
- 10.4. Controlled and sustained release of drugs in regenerative medicine
- 10.5. Conclusions and perspective remarks
- Chapter 11. Hydrogels based on levan
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Production mechanisms
- 11.3. Levan-based hydrogels
- 11.4. Conclusions and future perspectives
- Chapter 12. Hydrogels based on schizophyllan
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Biological function
- 12.3. Conclusion
- Chapter 13. Curdlan based hydrogels
- 13.1. Overview
- 13.2. Biosynthesis of curdlan
- 13.3. Polymer properties with structural features related to hydrogel formation
- 13.4. Importance of curdlan hydrogel in drug delivery
- 13.5. Method of preparation of curdlan hydrogel
- 13.6. Evaluation parameter in animal model for curdlan hydrogel
- 13.7. Application of curdlan-based hydrogel
- 13.8. Conclusion
- Chapter 14. Chitosan nanogel for drug delivery and regenerative medicine
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. Chitosan nanogels in drug delivery
- 14.3. Chitosan nanogels in regenerative medicine
- 14.4. Characterization methods of chitosan nanogels in drug delivery
- 14.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 15. Heparin-based nanocomposite hydrogels
- 15.1. Introduction
- 15.2. Advantages of nanocomposite hydrogel over hydrogel
- 15.3. Types of nanocomposite hydrogels
- 15.4. Heparin
- 15.5. Preparation of heparin-based nanocomposites
- 15.6. Application of heparin-based nanocomposites
- 15.7. Conclusion and prospective
- Chapter 16. Hydrogels based on chondroitin sulfate nanocomposites
- 16.1. Introduction
- 16.2. Structure and bioactivities of chondroitin sulfate
- 16.3. Method of preparation of nanocomposite hydrogel systems
- 16.4. Drug delivery, biomedical, and other applications of chondroitin sulfate nanocomposite hydrogel
- 16.5. Future directions and conclusion
- Chapter 17. In situ gel based on gellan gum
- 17.1. Introduction
- 17.2. Mechanisms of gellan gum-based in situ gels
- 17.3. Compatibility of gellan gum in different formulations
- 17.4. Applications of gellan gum as in situ gels
- 17.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 18. Preclinical and clinical study of polysaccharide-based hydrogels
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. Market trend
- 18.3. Hydrogels in drug delivery system
- 18.4. Tissue engineering
- 18.5. Wound repair
- 18.6. Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 14, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 310
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323953511
- eBook ISBN: 9780323957946
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Tapan Kumar Giri
Tapan Kumar Giri was educated at Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India), where he received Pharmacy degrees viz: B.Pharm, M.Pharm and Ph.D. With 18 years of teaching experience, he was associated with some prestigious institutes in India. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His diverse research interests include drug delivery, biopolymers, hydrogels, micro and nanosized dosage forms. He has supervised about thirty (30) M.Pharm. projects and published about seventy (70) research articles in peer reviewed journals along with 16 book chapters. He has authored two pharmacy research books and also edited two research books (CRC Press and Elsevier). He has served as a Guest Editor of Current Chemical Biology Journal, Bentham Science. Two of his research articles published by Elsevier received the distinction of high cited article award. In 2017, he was honored with the best teacher award of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology. He was also recognized as the world’s top 2% Indian scientist in 2019.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, IndiaBG
Bijaya Ghosh
Bijaya Ghosh has been in the profession of teaching for the last 34 years and has taught undergraduate and graduate Pharmacy students in some premier institutions of North and South India. Currently, she is working as a Professor (Pharmaceutics) at NSHM Knowledge Campus-Kolkata Group of Institutions. She received her B.Pharm, M.Pharm and PhD degrees from Jadavpur University in 1983, 1986 and 1994, respectively. Keenly interested in experimenting with new concepts, she has worked in diverse fields like oral sustained release dosage form, transdermal drug delivery, iontophoresis and therapeutic drug monitoring. She has published over forty (40) research papers in peer reviewed International and National Journals. She has authored three pharmacy text books and also co-edited two research books (CRC Press and Elsevier). Equally interested in literature, she has produced a couple of novels and a series of English short stories.
Affiliations and expertise
NSHM Knowledge Campus-Kolkata Group of Institution, Kolkata, IndiaHB
Hemant Badwaik
Dr. Hemant Badwaik is presently working as an Associate Professor in Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India. He has 13 years of teaching experience in the field of Pharmacy. He teaches Pharmaceutical Analysis and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at both undergraduate and post graduate levels. Dr. Badwaik has 40 scientific publications, along with two textbooks and four book chapters to his credit. Mainly a synthetic chemist, his research is focused on the synthesis and screening of novel organic molecules and modification of natural polymers. Dr. Hemant Badwaik is an Editorial Board Member of Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening (Bentham Science) and SF Journal of Pharmaceutical and Analytical Chemistry. In 2017, he received the Young Scientist Award (Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences) of the 15th Chhattisgarh Young Scientist Congress
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor and Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, IndiaRead Polysaccharide Hydrogels for Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine on ScienceDirect