Main description:

Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science: Recent Advances in Nanocarriers covers nanocarrier synthesis techniques, as well as methods for encapsulating bioactive compounds. The book explores the tests carried out to evaluate their pharmacological properties, in addition to investigating the recent results on clinical tests carried out for some nanocarriers. This book addresses the most recent advances in nanocarriers and their diverse applications in modern medicine for the treatment of diseases and diagnostics. Recent clinical tests that some nanocarriers are undergoing is discussed as well.

Contents:

I. General aspects
1. Importance of nanomedicine in human health
2. Possibilities and challenges for the clinical application of nanoparticles in the treatment of diseases
3. Pre-clinical and Clinical Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of nanocarriers

II. Synthesis and functionalization of nanocarriers
4. Main techniques and methods used for the production of nanocarriers
5. Nanocarrier designs from carbon nanotubes
6. Methods for functionalization of nanocarriers

III. Drug delivery and diagnostics using nanoparticles
7. Methods for nanoencapsulation
8. Recent advances in understanding the release of drugs in nano-formulations
9. Lipid nanocarriers for the delivery of drugs to the nervous system
10. Nanoformulations for topical drugs
11. Transport of drugs using liposomes
12. Gold nanoparticles for drug delivery.
13. Overview on the use of nanostructures in diagnostic imaging
14. Quantum dot in diagnostic imaging
15. Nanostructures used in cancer imaging

IV. Nanomedicine for the treatment of diseases
16. Trends topics in nanovaccines
17. Advances in the use of nanocarriers for the treatment of neglected diseases
18. Nanocarriers for the treatment of infectious diseases
19. Biomedical applications of magnetic nanocarriers
20. Lipid nanoparticles: Pharmacological applications for the treatment of cancer
21. Nanocarriers for the treatment of inflammatory diseases
22. Selective treatment of tumors using nanocarriers