Next-Generation Therapies and Technologies for Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mina-Osorio, Paola (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacy.; Gene therapy.; Immunology.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Gene Therapy.

As our understanding of immune mediated chronic inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) grows, it becomes more and more clear that these conditions result from the convergence of a multitude of pathogenic mechanisms whose relative individual contribution is different in different patient subsets. Promising ne...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Targeted drug delivery
• I. Bispecific antibodies
• II. Targeting neovessels with NGR peptides
• Genomic-based drugs
• III. Micro-RNA/aptamers
• Nanomedicine
• IV. Exosomes
• V. Microparticles
• Cross-functional targets
• VI. Metabolic targets in inflammation
• VII. Targeting gut microbiome-immune system interactions
• VIII. Targeting the nervous system as an add on therapy for autoinflammatory conditions
• Biomarkers
• IX. Biomarkers in drug discovery
• Other therapies
• X. Stem cell therapy in the treatment of rheumatic disease and application in the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus.