Multifunctional pharmaceutical nanocarrires /

• Other Authors: Torchilin, V. P.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Springer, 2008.
• Series: Fundamental biomedical technologies ; v. 4.
• Subjects: Nanoparticles.; Drug carriers (Pharmacy); Nanomedicine.; MEDICAL > Drug Guides.; MEDICAL > Pharmacology.; MEDICAL > Pharmacy.; MEDICAL > Nursing > Pharmacology.; Nanostructured materials > Pharmaceutical nanocarriers.; Pharmaceutical technology.; Chimie.; Science des matériaux.; Electronic books.
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Various pharmaceutical nanocarriers, such as nanospheres, nanocapsules, liposomes, micelles, cell ghosts, lipoproteins and some others are widely used for experimental (and already clinical) delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents. The use of nanoparticulate pharmaceutical carriers to enhance...

Table of Contents:

• Multifunctional nanopharmaceuticals: Challenges and opportunities
• Multifunctional polymeric assemblies for drug delivery
• Multifunctional nanogels and nanoparticles as pharmaceutical carriers
• Functionalized liposomes for organ-specific delivery
• Functionalized polymers for drug delivery
• Functionalized dendrimers as pharmaceutical carriers
• Charge modification of pharmaceutical nanocarriers
• Stimuli-sensitive systems for drug and gene delivery
• Pharmaceutical micelles
• possibility to combine longevity and stimuli-sensitivity
• Long-circulating liposomes with attached diagnostic moieties: Application for gamma- and MR imaging
• Magnetically responsive pharmaceutical nanocarriers: What can the magnetism add?
• Multifunctional nanotherapeutics for cancer
• What function should be added to pharmaceutical nanocarrier to bring it to mitochondria?