Main description:

Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Sciences presents various drug-delivery techniques that utilize nanotechnology for the biomedical domain, highlighting both therapeutic and diagnostic applications. The book provides important facts and detailed studies on different promising nanocarriers like liposomes, exosomes and virus-based nanocarriers. Moreover, it explores these nanocarriers' utilization in the therapeutic applications of various diseases such as cancer, inflammation, neurodegenerative disorders like Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and inflammatory bowel disease. In addition, the book describes how nanotechnology has efficiently overtaken conventional dosage forms and provided comfort and ease to patients.

Relevant information regarding market trends, patents and social-economic factors are also provided, making this the perfect reference for doctors, researchers and scientists working in the fields of medicine, biochemistry, biotechnology, nanobiotechnology and the pharmaceutical sciences.

Contents:

Part 1: Targeted Drug Delivery
1. Introduction to drug-delivery techniques based on nanotechnological approaches
2. Methods for fabricating various Nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery
3. Biologically synthesized nanocarriers for targeted drug delivery applications
4. Nanomedicine and Nanocarriers for Cancer treatment
5. Role of Nanocarriers for inflammation treatment
6. Nanocarriers and Nanomedicine for neurodegenerative disorders
7. Potentialities of Nanomedicine and Nanocarriers for infectious disease treatment
8. Utility of Nanomedicine and Nanocarriers for non-infectious disease treatment
9. Passive and active targeted drug delivery strategies
10. Utility of various drug delivery systems and their advantages and disadvantages
11. Clinical applications and future clinical trials of the drug delivery system
12. Advantages of nano-drug targeting than conventional dosage system

Part 2: Pharmaceuticals
13. Role of nanotechnology in the pharmaceutical industry
14. Recent development in the pharmaceutical industries
15. Strategies to synthesize pharmaceutical nanoparticles
16. Biologically synthesized pharmaceutical nanoparticles
17. Advantages and disadvantages of pharmaceutical nanoparticles
18. Recent market trends of nano-based pharmaceutical products
19. Recent pharmaceutical patents based on nanotechnological aspects
20. Perspectives, safety issues, legal factors of nano-based materials utility in pharmaceutical applications