Drug Delivery
1st Edition
Published on 18. March 2010
Book
Hardback
XIV, 501 pages
978-3-642-00476-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the view of most experts pharmacology is on drugs, targets, and actions. In the context the drug as a rule is seen as an active pharmaceutical ingredient and not as a complex mixture of chemical entities of a well defined structure. Today, we are becoming more and more aware of the fact that delivery of the active compound to the target site is a key. The present volume gives a topical overview on various modern approaches to drug targeting covering today's options for specific carrier systems allowing successful drug treatment at various sites of the body difficult to address and allowing to increase the benefit-risk-ratio to the optimum possible.
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Series
Edition
1st Edition.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIV, 501 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1028 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-00476-6 (9783642004766)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-00477-3
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03/2010
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Content
Fundamentals.- Passive and Active Drug Targeting: Drug Delivery to Tumors as an Example.- Nanoparticle Technologies for Cancer Therapy.- Biosensing and Drug Delivery at the Microscale.- Devices.- Lipid Nanoparticles: Effect on Bioavailability and Pharmacokinetic Changes.- Viral Vectors for Gene Transfer: Current Status of Gene Therapeutics.- Pulmonary Drug Delivery: Medicines for Inhalation.- Needle-Free Vaccine Injection.- Pharmaceutically Used Polymers: Principles, Structures, and Applications of Pharmaceutical Delivery Systems.- Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery Systems.- Intrauterine Drug Delivery for Contraception and Gynaecological Treatment: Novel Approaches.- Drug-Eluting Medical Implants.- Clinical and Preclinical Application of Therapeutics for Systemic Use.- Improving Oral Delivery.- Transdermal Drug Delivery.- Targeting the Brain - Surmounting or Bypassing the Blood-Brain Barrier.- Clinical and Preclinical Application of Therapeutics for Topical Use.- Carriers in the Topical Treatment of Skin Disease.- Medical Devices for the Treatment of Eye Diseases.- Erratum to: Biosensing and Drug Delivery at the Microscale.