Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Uchegbu, Ijeoma F. (Editor), Schätzlein, Andreas G. (Editor), Cheng, Woei Ping (Editor), Lalatsa, Aikaterini (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacy.; Pharmacology.; Biotechnology.; Physical chemistry.; Polymers.; Nanotechnology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Physical Chemistry.; Polymer Sciences.

The emerging discipline of nanoscience has resulted in a number of new technologies.  These groundbreaking advances are firing the imagination of a generation of scientists and leading to new materials with a wealth of functionality.  In the biomedical sciences these technological advances are final...

Table of Contents:

• Nanoscience and nanotechnology overview
• Liposome preparation and characterization
• Solid polymeric nanoparticles
• Lipid nanoparticles
• Polymeric vesicles
• Low molecular weight amphiphile micelles
• Polymeric micelles
• Niosomes
• Quantum dots
• Magnetic particles
• Drug nanoparticles
• Polymeric pro-drugs
• Therapeutic Applications of pharmaceutical nanosystems
• Drug solubilisation
• Gene therapy
• Chemotherapy
• Tissue engineering
• Anti-infectives
• Vaccination
• Anti-arthritic drugs
• Imaging agents
• Commercial exploitation of pharmaceutical nanosystems
• Future perspectives
• Multiple Choice
• Problem Sets
• Case Studies
• Suggested Reading.