Drug Delivery Nanoparticles Formulation and Characterization Second Edition edited by Yashwant Pathak

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Drug Delivery Nanoparticles Formulation and Characterization
Second Edition
edited by Yashwant Pathak

2009 • 432 pages

Drug Delivery Nanoparticles Formulation and Characterization presents key aspects of nanoparticulate system development for various therapeutic applications and provides advanced methods used to file for regulatory approval.

This comprehensive guide features:

• 100 high quality images
• Process Analytical Techniques (PAT) used in manufacturing Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery Systems (NDDS)
• in-vitro and in-vivo evaluation of NDDS
• applications of novel techniques used in formulation development and characterization, such as microscopic and nonmicroscopic techniques

Contents

1. Recent Developments in Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery Systems
2. Polymeric Nanoparticles for Small-Molecule Drugs: Biodegradation of Polymers and Fabrication of Nanoparticles
3. Formulation of NPDDS for Macromolecules
4. Formulation of NPDDS for Gene Delivery
5. NPDDS for Cancer Treatment: Targeting Nanoparticles, a Novel Approach
6. Design and Formulation of Protein-Based NPDDS
7. Gold Nanoparticles and Surfaces: Nanodevices for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
8. NPDDS for the Treatment of Diabetes
9. Nanosystems for Dermal and Transdermal Drug Delivery
10. In Vitro Evaluation of NPDDS
11. In Vitro Characterization of Nanoparticle Cellular Interaction
12. In Vitro Blood Interaction and Pharmacological and Toxicological Characterization of Nanosystems
13. In Vivo Evaluations of Solid Lipid Nanoparticles and Microemulsions
14. Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Nanoparticles
15. Introduction to Analytical Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy and Nanoparticle Characterization
16. Structural Fingerprinting of Nanocrystals in the Transmission Electron Microscope: Utilizing Information on Projected Reciprocal Lattice Geometry, 2D Symmetry, and Structure Factors
17. Mechanical Properties of Nanostructures
18. Fullerene-Based Nanostructures: A Novel High-Performance Platform Technology for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
19. Semiconducting Quantum Dots for Bioimaging
20. Application of Near Infrared Fluorescence Bioimaging in Nanosystems