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Topical Dermal Drug Delivery

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Jitender Madan + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Topical Dermal Drug Delivery: Concepts and Advances compiles, in a single volume, the most recent advances in topical and dermal formulations for the treatment of skin disorders.The book covers three major concepts. The skin anatomy and physiology part includes chapters focused on relevant information for drug delivery. The second part of the book deals with several recent topical dermal drug delivery systems, including computational methods, permeation enhancers, bio precursors, hydrogels, emugels, exosomes and several nanotechnology enabled systems. The third and final part covers scaling up, toxicity, clinical trials, and regulatory considerations.This is a complete reference for academic and corporate pharma researchers investigating targeted drug delivery to the skin. Medical & Health Sciences researchers would also benefit from understanding the delivery systems covered in this book.

Natural Biopolymers for Drug Delivery

  • 1st Edition
  • March 1, 2025
  • Amit Kumar Nayak + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Natural Biopolymers for Drug Delivery thoroughly details the properties, benefits and challenges of using these biomaterials in drug delivery, with a strong focus on biocompatibility and reduction of unwanted interactions. An extensive range of natural biopolymers are explored, such as cellulose, chitosan, casein, gelatin, cashew gum, and many more. Biocompatibility, toxicity and regulatory considerations are also thoroughly discussed, ensuring the reader is fully equipped for efficient biomaterials selection and utilization in drug delivery applications. This is a must-have reference for those working in the fields of materials science, biomedical engineering, pharmaceutical science and pharmacology, chemical engineering and clinical science.

Emerging Paradigms in Delivery Systems for Antitubercular Therapy

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Rajeev Sharma + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Emerging Paradigms in Delivery Systems for Antitubercular Therapy provides an up-to-date and thorough overview of the state-of-the-art of concepts, design, and recent advances in nanomedicines and nanobiotechnology-based strategies for the treatment of tuberculosis. The book enables researchers to prepare a variety of nanotechnology-based strategies, investigate their properties, and discover their uses and applications in antitubercular therapy, focusing on advanced nanomaterials that are utilized for encapsulation of nucleic acid, mRNA, DNA, and tuberculosis vaccination.This book covers all major topics that have shaped the development of nanomedicine and propelled it to its current place at the forefront of Nanotechnology based treatment innovation. It will be a welcomed resource for researchers and readers with more and more challenging therapy and biologicals with their possible modifications to be used for the effective therapy of tuberculosis.

Drug Delivery

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Kevin Ita
  • English
  • Paperback
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Drug Delivery: Advances and Emerging Strategies is an advanced reference for researchers and students in pharmaceutical science, materials sciences and biomedical engineering exploring ways to deliver drug effectively to specific systems and organs in the human body. Each chapter cover the particular challenges provided by membranes, the environment, and the involved organ physiology and how emerging strategies and recent advances are helping overcome them. The opening chapter provides an overview of drug delivery, setting the stage to the remaining chapters of the book. Next come oral, pulmonary, vaginal, ocular and nasal dedicated chapters. The following chapters cover colonic, transdermal and transungual, brain and nose-to-brain delivery. The next chapters focus on vaccine delivery, and then organ specific chapters to the myocardium, kidney, liver, pancreas, buccal and sublingual, closing with injectable drug delivery systems. "Drug Delivery: Advances and Emerging Strategies" offers an integrated and up-to-date overview of drug delivery methods, technologies and approaches targeting body systems and organs. Researchers in pharmaceutical science will benefit from the consolidated outlook provided. Advanced students in related areas will benefit from the introduction and discussion around barriers, physiology and how to overcome them to transport drug molecules to the target.

Intelligent Nanobiosystems in Medicine and Healthcare, Volume 1

  • 1st Edition
  • December 1, 2024
  • Vijay Mishra + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Intelligent Nanobiosystems in Medicine and Healthcare, Volume One: Fundamentals, Fabrication and Commercialization provides an overview of recent progress in the nanobiosystems arena, helping readers design and develop novel drug delivery systems and devices that take advantage of recent advances in nanomedical technologies. The book explores a wide range of promising approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases using the latest advancement in cutting-edge nanomedical technologies. It highlights established research and technology on intelligent nanobiosystems, their rapidly emerging aspects, and future research directions. Sections cover nanobiosystems, explore nano candidates and fabrication aspects, and delve into the challenges of commercialization.This book will be a useful resource for researchers and postgraduate students in pharmaceutical sciences and biotechnology as well as medical professionals, biologists, chemists, materials scientists, clinical researchers, biochemical and biomedical engineers working both in academia and industry.

Intelligent Nanobiosystems in Medicine and Healthcare, Volume 2

  • 1st Edition
  • December 1, 2024
  • Vijay Mishra + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Intelligent Nanobiosystems in Medicine and Healthcare, Volume 2: Applications of Intelligent Nanobiosystems provides recent progress in the nanobiosystems arena, helping readers better design and develop novel drug delivery systems and devices that take advantage of recent advances in nanomedical technologies. The book explores a wide range of promising approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases using the latest advancements in cutting-edge nanomedical technologies. This updated volume includes chapters by experts in the field, featuring an exploration of targeted therapy and drug delivery systems, analytical and imaging tools, theranostics, tissue engineering and regenerative medicines, dentistry tools and modern developments.This book will be a useful resource for researchers and postgraduate students in pharmaceutical sciences and biotechnology industries as well as medical professionals, biologists, chemists, materials scientists, clinical researchers, and biochemical and biomedical engineers working both in industry and academia.

Technological Advances and Innovations in the Treatment of Chronic Respiratory Disorders

  • 1st Edition
  • November 21, 2024
  • Gabriele De Rubis + 5 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Technological Advances and Innovations in the Treatment of Chronic Respiratory Disorders focuses on 3D printing, bioprinting, microfluidics, organ-on-a-chip systems, and molecular modeling. The book, written by a team of leading experts in the field, is an essential resource for anyone interested in the future of CRD treatment. Chapters discuss the emerging therapeutic approaches for CRDs, including biologicals and phytoceuticals. Core chapters of the book then cover the application of 3D printing, bioprinting, microfluidics, organ-on-a-chip systems, and molecular modeling to different CRDs. The book concludes with a discussion of the current clinical trials and future prospects for the management of CRDs.This is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals who are interested in the latest technological advances in the field of CRDs. It will also be of interest to students and scientists working in the fields of pharmaceutical sciences, microfluidics, bioinformatics, drug design, drug delivery, and 3D printing.

Theranostics Nanomaterials in Drug Delivery

  • 1st Edition
  • November 1, 2024
  • Prashant Kesharwani + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Theranostics Nanomaterials in Drug Delivery presents the most recent advances in the development of theranostic nanomaterials for drug delivery. This book compiles reports and studies on the latest changes and improvements of theranostic nanocarriers such as nanoemulsions, liposomes, exosomes, polymeric micelles, PLGA nanoparticles, chitosan nanoparticles, dendrimer, quantum dots, silica nanoparticles, gold nanoparticles, silver nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles, and many more, all of which can help in the sensitive diagnosis, precise targeting, and efficient and controlled delivery of nanomaterials to control various diseases at different clinical stages.Theranostics nanomaterials in drug delivery will serve as a solid foundation and reference for pharmaceutical scientists, undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and experts in the medical field involved in the development of advanced drug delivery systems.

Polymers for Oral Drug Delivery Technologies

  • 1st Edition
  • October 14, 2024
  • Anilkumar Parambath
  • English
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Polymers for Oral Drug Delivery Technologies covers the fundamentals of oral drug delivery and various aspects of polymer technology in oral drug delivery, from classification and synthesis, to applications and regulatory factors. It presents the oral delivery of therapeutics for treating a number of diseases, along with the challenges of oral drug administration to assure a predictive and reproducible pharmacokinetic profile of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).Polymers play an important role to achieve the targeted release profile consistently of an API in vivo by various functionalities like drug protection from gastric juice, fast release and supersaturation or release within a targeted area of the GI tract.

Targeted Therapy for the Central Nervous System

  • 1st Edition
  • October 1, 2024
  • Viral Patel + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Targeted Therapy for Central Nervous System: Formulation, Clinical Challenges and Regulatory Strategies presents research on various delivery methods of drugs to the central nervous system and brain. This volume examines targeted therapies for neurodegenerative disorders and succinctly outlines the future of drug delivery systems, highlighting significant advancements specifically relating to central nervous system delivery. This book will be of great interest to researchers working in the field of neuroscience and pharmacology as well as clinicians (pharmacists, radiologists, psychiatrists).