Direct Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery

Section I Basic considerations in nose-to-brain drug delivery 1. An overview of anatomical and physiological aspects of the nose and the brain Dignesh Khunt and Manju Misra 2. Direct transport theory: From the nose to the brain Namdev Dhas, Dattatray Yadav, Ashutosh Singh, Atul Garkal, Ritu Kudarha, Priyanka Bangar, Jignasa Savjani, Chandrakantsing V. Pardeshi, Neha Garg, and Tejal Mehta 3. Physicochemical, biopharmaceutical, and practical considerations for efficient nose-to-brain drug delivery Umesh D. Laddha and Amol A. Tagalpallewar Section II Nanotechnology and naso-brain drug delivery 4. Nanomedicines for CNS therapy: Fundamental aspects Drashti Desai, Bala Prabhakar, and Pravin Shende 5. Nanotechnological advances in direct nose-to-brain drug delivery for neurodegenerative disorders and other neuroailments Rahul Shukla, Ashish Kumar, and S.J.S. Flora 6. Surface modification of nanocarriers as a strategy to enhance the direct nose-to-brain drug delivery Chandrakantsing V. Pardeshi and Eliana B. Souto 7. Mucoadhesion as a strategy to enhance the direct nose-to-brain drug delivery Mrunal Patil 8. Nanoparticles for direct nose-to-brain drug delivery: Implications of targeting approaches Raju O. Sonawane, Yogeshwar Bachhav, Avinash R. Tekade, and Chandrakantsing V. Pardeshi 9. Strategies for enhanced direct nose-to-brain drug delivery Yamini Madav and Sarika Wairkar Section III Carriers for direct nose-to-brain drug delivery 10. Particulate carriers for nose-to-brain delivery Shiv Bahadur and Kamla Pathak 11. Vesicular carriers for direct nose-to-brain drug delivery Prashant K. Deshmukh, Swapnil N. Jain, Pravin O. Patil, and Chandrakantsing V. Pardeshi 12. Gel-based delivery of neurotherapeutics via naso-brain pathways Hitendra S. Mahajan and Payal H. Patil Section IV Applications of direct nose-to-brain delivery 13. Applications of direct nose-to-brain drug delivery in medicine and pharmacy Ganesh B. Shevalkar, Mahendra K. Prajapati, Rohan V. Pai, and Kamlesh D. Mali 14. Applications of direct nose-to-brain drug delivery in biomedicine, biotechnology, tissue engineering, and immunology Sanjay B. Patil 15. Diagnostic and theranostic intranasal nanointerventions for brain diseases Prashant Upadhaya, Sreeranjini Pulakkat, and Vandana Patravale 16. Nose-to-brain delivery of biologics and stem cells Mukta Agrawal, Aditya Narayan Konwar, Amit Alexander, and Vivek Borse 17. Applications of nose-to-brain delivery in nanodiagnosis and nanotherapy of neurodegenerative disorders Abhijeet Kulkarni, Mahesh Shinde, Gaurav Sonawane, Hitesh Raotole, Rohit Pande, and Chandrakantsing V. Pardeshi 18. Intranasal gene therapy for the treatment of neurological disorders Namdev Dhas, Tejal Mehta, Shilpa Sharma, Atul Garkal, Dattatray Yadav, Kartik Hariharan, Babeeta Shamjetshabam, Shubham Khot, Ritu Kudarha, Priyanka Bangar, Gajanan Arbade, and Pratap Kalyankar 19. Potential of naso-brain drug delivery in glioblastoma therapy Amarjitsing Rajput, Nikunj Tandel, Swapnil Borse, and Shital Butani 20. Nose-to-brain delivery of antiretroviral drugs against NeuroAIDS Kailas K. Moravkar, Devanshi S. Shah, Durgesh K. Jha, Purnima D. Amin, and Sanjay J. Surana Section V Technological advances for effective drug administration 21. A technology overview on advanced drug administration devices for effective nose-to-brain delivery Sadhana R. Shahi and Chandrakantsing V. Pardeshi Section VI Evaluation of direct nose-to-brain drug delivery 22. Experimental models for evaluation of direct nose-to-brain drug delivery Vinit V. Agnihotri, Ashish P. Gorle, Chandrakantsing V. Pardeshi, and Sanjay J. Surana 23. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of direct nose-to-brain drug delivery Veena S. Belgamwar, Vidyadevi T. Bhoyar, Sagar Trivedi, and Chandrakantsing V. Pardeshi Section VII Toxicity and regulatory aspects 24. Toxicity aspects: Crucial obstacles to clinical translation of nanomedicines Vikas Bansal, Sameer S. Katiyar, and Chander Parkash Dora 25.