Nanoparticulate drug delivery perspectives on the transition from laboratory to market

Nanotechnology-based therapeutics, operating at scales of billionths of a metre, have great potential for future expansion in altering the scale and methods of drug delivery. The availability of these novel formulations to once-inaccessible areas of the body has greatly expanded the therapeutic wind...

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Main Author Patravale, Vandana
Other Authors Dandekar, Prajakta, Jain, Ratnesh
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford ; Philadelphia : Woodhead Pub., 2012.
SeriesWoodhead Publishing series in biomedicine ; no. 17.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781908818195
9781628703825
9781907568985
ISSN2050-0289
2050-0289 ;
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xiv, 229 pages) : illustrations.

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Table of Contents:
  • Nanoparticulate systems as drug carriers: The need
  • Nanoparticles as drug carriers
  • Characterization techniques for nanoparticulate carriers
  • Nanotoxicology: Evaluating toxicity potential of drug-nanoparticles
  • Regulatory aspects of nanoparticulate drug delivery systems
  • Clinical trials and industrial aspects
  • Case studies: Nano-systems in the market.