Drug Delivery Systems: Advanced Technologies Potentially Applicable in Personalised Treatment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Coelho, Jorge (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine, 4
• Subjects: Medicine.; Polymers.; Medicinal chemistry.; Diabetes.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Medicinal Chemistry.; Polymer Sciences.

This book is part of a series dedicated to recent advances on preventive, predictive and personalised medicine (APPPM). It focuses on the theme of “Drug delivery systems: advanced technologies potentially applicable in personalised treatments”. The critical topics involving the development and prepa...

Table of Contents:

• Polymers in Drug Delivery: Concepts, Developments and Potential.- Amphiphilic Molecules in Drug Delivery Systems
• Sizing nanoparticles in liquids: an overview of methods
• Nanoparticles for oral delivery of insulin
• Bioartificial pancreas: in the road to clinical application
• Cationic liposome-based systems for nucleic acid delivery: from the formulation development to therapeutic applications
• Biomaterial-based vectors for targeted delivery of nucleic acids to the nervous system
• Three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds as drug delivery devices for Tissue engineering applications
• The Warburg Effect is a Guide to Multipurpose Cancer Therapy Including Trace Element Delivery
• In silico research in drug delivery systems
• The Importance of Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization Techniques in the Design of Tailor Made Nanoparticles for DSS.