1st Edition
Drug Delivery Approaches and Nanosystems, Volume 1 Novel Drug Carriers
Introduction to Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery
Raj K. Keservani, Rajesh K. Kesharwani, and Anil K. Sharma
Nanoparticles: General Aspects and Applications
Onur Alpturk and Ceyda Tuba Sengel-Turk
Nanotechnology in Medicine: Drug Delivery Systems
Elena Campano-Cuevas, Ana Mora-Boza, Gabriel Castillo-Dalí, Agustín Rodríguez-Gonzalez-Elipe, María-Angeles Serrera-Figallo, Angel Barranco, and Daniel Torres-Lagares
Polymeric Matrix Systems for Drug Delivery
Snežana Ilic-Stojanovic, Ljubiša Nikolic, Vesna Nikolic, Dušica Ilic, Ivan S. Ristic, and Ana Tacic
Applications of Nanobiomaterials in Drug Delivery
Yaser Dahman and Hamideh Hosseinabadi
Carbon Nanotubes Used as Nanocarriers in Drug and Biomolecule Delivery
Hua He, Deli Xiao, Lien Ai Pham-Huy, Pierre Dramou, and Chuong Pham-Huy
Dendrimers: A Glimpse of History, Current Progress, and Applications
Surya Prakash Gautam, Arun Kumar Gupta, Revati Gupta, Tapsya Gautam, and Maninder Pal Singh
Nanofibers: Production Techniques and Applications
Hemant K. S Yadav, Nour A. H Alhalabi, and Ghufran A. R Alsalloum
Drug and Food Applications of Liposomes and Nanoparticles: From Benchmark to Bedside?
Marcus Vinícius Dias-Souza and Renan Martins dos Santos
Nanotechnology for Cosmetic Herbal Actives: Is It a New Beauty Regime?
Ranjita Shegokar
Antimicrobial Activity of Nanotechnological Products
Leonardo Quintana Soares Lopes, Márcia Ebling de Souza, Rodrigo de Almeida Vaucher, and Roberto Christ Vianna Santos
Drug Targeting: Principles and Applications
Ruslan G. Tuguntaev, Ahmed Shaker Eltahan, Satyajeet S. Salvi, and Xing-Jie Liang
Biography
Raj K. Keservani, MPharm, is affiliated with the Sagar Institute of Research and Technology-Pharmacy, Bhopal, India. He has more than seven years of experience in pharmaceutical education at various institutes in India. He has published 30 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, fifteen book chapters, two co-authored books, and two edited books. He is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals. His research interests include nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDS), transdermal drug delivery, health science, cancer biology, and neurobiology.
Anil K. Sharma, MPharm, is working as a lecturer at the Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, University of Delhi, India. He has more than six years of academic experience in pharmaceutical sciences. He has published 26 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, as well as 12 book chapters. His research interests encompass nutraceutical and functional foods, novel drug delivery systems (NDDS), drug delivery, nanotechnology, health science/life science, and biology/cancer biology/neurobiology.
Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, has more than seven years of research and two years of teaching experience at various institutes in India, imparting bioinformatics and biotechnology education. He has received several awards, including the NASI-Swarna Jayanti Puruskar-2013 by The National Academy of Sciences of India. He has authored over 32 peer-reviewed articles and ten book chapters. He has been a member of many scientific communities as well as a reviewer for many international journals. His research fields of interest are medical informatics, protein structure and function prediction, computer-aided drug designing, structural biology, drug delivery, cancer biology, and next-generation sequence analysis.
