Ocular Drug Delivery: Advances, Challenges and Applications

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Addo, Richard T. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Drug resistance.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Biomedicine.; Drug Resistance.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.

The eye is a highly specialized system of the body that has been designed with mechanisms for its own defense, and these defense mechanisms create challenges in administration of medications to the eye. Therefore, ocular drug delivery has been a major challenge to drug delivery researchers. There ar...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• CHAPTER 1: Background of Ocular Drug Delivery, Oluyemisi A. Bamiro, Ruhi V. Dale, Richard T. Addo
• CHAPTER 2: Anatomy of the Eye and Common Diseases Affecting the Eye, Evelyn Addo, Oluyemisi A. Bamiro, Rodney Siwale
• CHAPTER 3: Ocular Barriers Henry Nettey, Yvonne Darko, Oluyemisi A. Bamiro, Richard Addo
• CHAPTER 4: Drug Delivery to Specific Compartments of the Eye, Lunawati Bennett
• CHAPTER 5: Topical Versus Systemic Ocular Drug Delivery, Lunawati Bennett
• CHAPTER 6: Nanotechnology for Transcorneal Drug Targeting in Glaucoma: Challenges and Progress, Ameeduzzafar Zafar, Javed Ahmad, Sohail Akhter, Richard T. Addo
• CHAPTER 7: In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of Ocular Drugs and Delivery Systems, Ruhi V. Dale, Richard T. Addo
• CHAPTER 8: Ocular Delivery of Proteins and Peptides, Lunawati Bennett
• CHAPTER 9: Progress of Controlled Drug Delivery Systems in Topical Ophthalmology: Focus on Nano and Micro Drug Carriers, Ameeduzzafar Zafar, Javed Ahmad, Richard T. Addo, Sohail Akhter
• CHAPTER 10
• Other Advances in Ocular Drug Delivery, Lunawati Bennett.