Handbook of Particulate Drug Delivery

Handbook of Particulate Drug Delivery, 2-Volume set

		2-Volume Set	Edited by M. N. V. Ravi Kumar Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology 2008, 750 pages, Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58883-123-X US$799.00

DESCRIPTION

Handbook of Particulate Drug Delivery is an attempt to bring together, under a single cover, the promising aspects of nano- and micro-particulate materials dealing with their chemistry, biology, engineering, and their medical aspects. This work is the first ever published in this research area that draws on past decades of pioneering research on particulate drug delivery. This handbook has over 5000 bibliographic citations, hundreds of illustrations, figures, tables, and chemical structures. The two-volume set contains 32 state-of-the-art review chapters written by more than 90 internationally renowned experts from 10 countries. This handbook is broadly classified into two thematic volumes. The first volume comprises 15 chapters and is primarily focused on the materials and technologies available for particulate drug carriers. The second volume also comprises 17 chapters and is primarily focused on the applications of particulate carrier systems in treating many diseases effectively. The various chapters include recent advances in nanotechnology processes and applications for particulate drug delivery; preparation and characterization of polymeric nano- and micro-particles for pharmaceutical applications.

CONTENTS
Volume 1: MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES

	Recent Advances in Nanoparticle-based Drug Delivery Technologies and Their Applications for Particulate Drug Delivery Systems, Robert O. Williams, III, Prapasri Sinswat
	Preparation and Characterization of Polymeric Nanoparticles and Microparticles for Pharmaceutical Applications, Kristiina Järvinen, Mika Pulkkinen, Jouni Hirvonen, Samuli Hirsjärvi, Leena Peltonen
	Supercritical Fluid-Based Technologies for Particulate Drug Delivery, Giovanna Della Porta, Ernesto Reverchon
	Use of Additives in the Design of Poly(Lactide-Co-Glycolide) Microspheres for Drug Delivery, Giuseppe De Rosa, Maria Immacolata La Rotonda, Fabiana Quaglia, Francesca Ungaro
	Polyelectrolyte Multilayers for Drug Delivery Applications, Chandrasekhar R. Kothapalli
	Polysaccharides as Carrier for Particulate-controlled Delivery Systems, Fatemeh Atyabi, Sayeh Majzoob
	Stimuli-responsive Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Gene Transfection, Ashok Kumar, Era Jain
	Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Systems for Drug Delivery, Yasemin Yazan
	Novel Nanopolymeric Architecture for the Delivery of Bioactive Agents, N. K. Jain, Hrushikesh B. Agahse
	Cyclodextrin Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery, Erem Bilensoy
	Synthesis and Surface Engineering of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery and Cellular Targeting, Ajay Kumar Gupta, Mona Gupta
	The Use of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Drug-Delivery Systems: The Interaction of Nanoparticles With Cells, Zulmira G. M. Lacava, Antonio Cláudio Tedesco, Ricardo B. Azevedo, Paulo César Morais
	Lipid-Based Dispersions for Drug Delivery, Elisabetta Esposito, Enea Menegatti, Rita Cortesi, Markus Drechsler
	Solid Lipid Nanoparticle Systems for Drug Delivery, Yasemin Yazan
	Mitochondriotropic Particulate Drug and DNA Delivery Systems, Sarathi V. Boddapati, Shing-Ming Cheng, Gerard G. M. D'Souza, Volkmar Weissig

Volume 2: APPLICATIONS

	Whole Cell Cancer Vaccines, Mark A. Suckow, William R. Wolter
	Nanotechnology as an Enabling Approach to the Development of Fixed-Dose Combination Products for Treating Cancer, Dawn N. Waterhouse, Jessica Kalra, Maite Verreault, Euan Ramsay, Wieslawa Dragowska, Donald Yapp, Murray Webb, Gigi Chiu, Marcel B. Bally
	Novel Drug Delivery Strategies for Effective Treatment of Cancer: Implications of Nanoparticulate Carrier Systems, L. Harivardhan Reddy
	Radiolabeled Lipid Nanoparticles for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Beth A. Goins
	Particulate Technology Applied to Imaging Contrast Agents, Ketan B. Ghaghada, Ananth V. Annapragada
	Preparation and Characterization of Particulate Drug Delivery Systems for Brain Targeting, Alessandro Dalpiaz, Catia Contado, Eleonora Vighi, Giovanni Tosi, Eliana Leo
	Controlled Drug Delivery to the Brain: An Overview, Elisa Garbayo, Eduardo Ansorena, María J. Blanco-Prieto, María S. Aymerich, José L. Lanciego
	Particulate Carriers for Nasal Administration, Yildiz Özsoy
	Nano- and Micro-particulate Carriers for Pulmonary Drug Delivery, Ana Grenha, Dayamí Carrión-Recio, Desirée Teijeiro-Osorio, Begoña Seijo, Carmen Remuñán-López
	Nanoparticles for the Targeted Delivery of Peptides and Proteins, Roberto Solaro, Federica Chiellini
	Particulate Drug Delivery Systems for Protein Drugs: An Overview of Noninvasive Insulin Delivery Using Calcium Phosphate Particle Technology, Tulin Morcol, Peri Nagappan, Larry Nerenbaum, Alaina R. Mitchell, Steve J. D. Bell
	Triggered Release of Postadministered Drugs,Efstathios Karathanasis, Abhiruchi Agarwal, Ananth V. Annapragada
	Particulate Delivery of Pathogen-associated Molecular Patterns, Jim E. Eyles
	Materials, Formulation Processes, and Characterization Chemistry of DNA and siRNA Nanoparticles, Robert K. DeLong
	Microparticle-Based Growth Factor Delivery Systems in Tissue Engineering, Rajesh Vasita, Dhirendra S. Katti
	Micro- and Nano-particles for Vaccines: Exploiting Basic Principles of the Immune System, S. Fischer, H. P. Merkle, B. Gander
	Applications of Particulate Drug Delivery Systems in the Control of an Intracellular Bacterial Pathogen, Carlos Gamazo, María Concepción Lecároz, Sandra Prior, Maite Estevan, María José Blanco-Prieto, Socorro Espuelas, Juan Manuel Irache

READERSHIP

The two-volume handbook presents a cross-disciplinary approach, useful to the scientific community working in the areas of materials and medicines. This handbook is intended for a very broad and diverse audience, including researchers, upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, biologists, medical experts, engineers, biomedical scientists, pharmacists, and all other life science-related experts working in the fields of drug delivery, pharmaceutical sciences, medicine, biomedical sciences, nanotechnology, chemistry, materials science, and polymer science.