Future Strategies for Drug Delivery with Particulate Systems

Research on particulate delivery systems is an important discipline of the pharmaceutical sciences, being performed in many academic and industrial laboratories all around the world. Particulate systems offer a large potential for the controlled delivery of drugs, diagnostic agents, antigens, and genetic material. Additionally they are of increasing interest for the controlled delivery of active compounds in cosmetics. The book presents trends and future strategies in these fields using: - liposomes - emulsions - polymeric nanoparticles - solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNTM, LipopearlsTM) - nanosuspensions of poorly soluble & bioavailable drugs - particulate diagnostics In this book European pharmaceutical research groups at the universities of Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris and Utrecht present their current research activities and outline the strategies for controlled delivery of the future. Contents: - Nanoparticles and Liposomes for Drug Targeting - Liquid Based Drug Delivery Systems for Peptide and Protein Drug Delivery - Interaction of Plasma Proteins with Liposomes - Influence of Surface Properties on Adsorption Patterns and Protein Conformation - Iron Oxides as Contrast Agents in Magnetic Resonance Lymphography- Solid Liquid Nanoparticles, Nanosuspensions and Liposomes for Pharmaceutical Cosmetic Applications - Liposomes as Drug Carrier for Diagnostics, Cytostatics and Genetic Material - Strategies for Site Specific, Time and Rate Controlled Delivery of Drugs, Genes and Antigenes - Index Readership: Research Scientists of Pharmaceutics - Biopharmaceutics and Biotechnology