Smart Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Specialties, Oncology, Medical Science, Pharmacology

• Author: Vladimir Torchilin
• ISBN: 9781783267248
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication: December 31, 2015
• Imprint: ICP
• Language: English

Drug delivery systems and pharmaceutical nanocarriers that respond to different types of stimuli, such as internal ones, intrinsic for the pathological area (changes in pH, temperature, redox condition, activity of certain enzymes), or external, artificially applied (magnetic field, ultrasound, various irradiations), represent an important and continuously growing area of research. Smart Phramaceutical Nanocarriers overviews the various stimuli used for drug release and delivery by smart pharmaceutical carriers and presents cutting-edge research and the newest data from the leading laboratories in each area.

Contents:

• Stimuli-Sensitive Nanopreparations: Overview (Aditi Jhaveri, Vitaly Shvets and Vladimir Torchilin)
• pH-Sensitive Nanosystems (Jun Hu and You Han Bae)
• Matrix Metalloproteinase-Sensitive Nanocarriers (Lin Zhu and Ying Tu)
• Redox-Sensitive Nanosystems (J H Jeong, T I Kim, J W Bae and K D Park)
• Temperature-Sensitive Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers (Gemma Navarro)
• Ultrasound-Controlled Nanosystems (Shao-Ling Huang, Hyunggun Kim, Melvin Klegerman and David D McPherson)
• Plasmonic Nanobubble-Controlled on Demand Drug Delivery and Release with High Target Cell Specificity (Ekaterina Y Lukianova-Hleb and Dmitri O Lapotko)
• Light-Activated Nanopreparations (L A Wells and H Sheardown)
• Magnetic Field-Responsive Nanocarriers (Aditi Jhaveri)
• Smart Lipid-Based Drug Delivery Systems (Paloma Benito-Gallo, Pavel Gershkovich, Maria Marlow, Vanessa Zann and Kishor M Wasan)
• Smart Polymer-Based Nanomedicines (Jonathan M Hartley and Jindřich Kopeček)
• Inorganic Nanoparticle-Based Smart Drug Delivery Systems (Jutaek Nam, Sungwook Jung, Sekyu Hwang, Jaejung Song and Sungjee Kim)
• Smart Nanopreparations for Cancer (Shaheen Sultana and Shahnaz Sultana)
• Advances in Smart Nanopreparations for Oral Drug Delivery (German A Islan, Maximiliano L Cacicedo, Valeria E Bosio and Guillermo R Castro)
• Smart Theranostic Nanosystems (Michael Li, Ratul Mukerji and Kam W Leong)

Readership: Academics and industrial scientists working with drug delivery systems, novel dosage forms, and experimental pharmaceutics as well as for graduate students specializing in these areas.
Key Features:

• The first detailed book on this subject
• Coverage of all main areas in "smart" drug delivery
• Set of prominent authors