Over the past few decades, there has been unprecedented progress in the design of versatile biopolymer-based nanoplatforms for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications, particularly due to their attractive traits, including excellent biocompatibility, outstanding biodegradability, low immunogenicity, and facile chemical modifiability. Biopolymer-Based Nanomaterials in Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications serves as a clear and detailed body of information on the synthesis and characterization of biopolymer-based materials in nanomedicine. This book describes various nanomaterials consisting of biopolymers including polysaccharides (i.e., derived from plants, animals, bacteria, algae, and fungi) and polypeptides in terms of their structures, synthetic protocols, and characterization and uses as therapeutic drugs and gene delivery carriers and in other biomedical fields. The chapters of this book, which are contributed by internationally renowned scholars working in the arena of biopolymer-based nanomaterials, would offer a wide vision on the potential future applications of these nanomaterials in the delivery and targeting of bioactive molecules of pharmaceutical interests and in tissue engineering, biosensing, bioimaging, and diagnostic purposes. The state-of-the-art information presented in the book would also encourage young investigators and researchers to further bring cutting-edge developments in the field of nanomedicine in the near future.
- Provides a scholarly insight into the recent development of biopolymer-based nanomaterials
- Focuses on the diverse cutting-edge techniques for the fabrication of native and modified biopolymer-based nanoplatforms and their applications in drug delivery and biomedical fields
- Assesses the opportunities and challenges of biopolymer-based nanocarriers in pharmaceutical and biomedical research
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Elsevier Science & Techn.
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Approx. 120 illustrations (50 in full color)
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978-0-12-820875-5 (9780128208755)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
1. Biopolymer-based materials in nanomedicine: Synthesis and characterization
Theme 2 Plant-derived polysaccharide-based nanomaterials2. Starch-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications3. Cellulose-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications4. Pectin-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications5. Konjac glucomannan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications6. Guar gum-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications7. Gum arabic-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications
Theme 3 Animal-derived polysaccharide based nanomaterials8. Chitosan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications9. Hyaluronic acid-based nanosystems for drug delivery applications
Theme 4 Bacteria-derived polysaccharide-based nanomaterials10. Curdlan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications11. Xanthan-based nanomaterials for drug delivery applications12. Dextran-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications13. Gellan gum-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications
Theme 5 Algae/fungi-derived polysaccharide-based nanomaterials14. Alginate-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications15. Carrageenan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications16. Pullulan-based nanomaterials in drug delivery applications
Theme 6 Protein based nanomaterials17. Gelatin-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications18. Collagen-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications19. Silk protein-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications20. Albumin-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications21. Zein-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications22. Casein-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications23. Cell penetration peptide-based nanomaterials in drug delivery and biomedical applications
