350 Pages 16 Color & 161 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    350 Pages 16 Color & 161 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Recent Advancement in Prodrugs

    Drugs used as medicines have many limitations like low chemical stability, aqueous solubility, or oral absorption/bioavailability, rapid presystemic metabolism, toxicity, inadequate site specificity, or poor patient acceptance/compliance (unwanted adverse effects, unacceptable taste or odor, irritation or pain). Prodrugs design is an approach to overcome these limitations.

    Key features

    • Covers recent advancements in development of prodrugs
    • Presents balanced synthesis and applications of prodrug chemistry
    • Discusses broad spectrum of prodrug categories and outlines industrial applications
    • Reviews prodrugs in cancer nanomedicine, its therapy and treatment
    • Elucidates mathematical models to study the kinetics of prodrugs

    This book covers recent advances in the design of prodrugs. It contains all the significant recent examples of prodrug chemistry developments and will aid academics and researchers seeking to generate new projects in the field.

    Chapter 1: Recent Advancements in New Drug Design and Development of Prodrugs

    Kamal Shah, Gourav Krishna, Jeetendra Kumar Gupta, Durgesh Nandini Chauhan, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, and Pradeep Mishra

    Chapter 2: Codrugs: Optimum Use through Prodrugs

    Suneela Dhaneshwar, Poorva shree Joshi, and Shubham Pawar

    Chapter 3: Role of Prodrugs in Drug Design

    Asadullah Madni, Sobia Noreen, Afifa Shafique, Abdur Rahim, Muhammad Sarfraz, and

    Attia Afzal 

    Chapter 4: Prodrugs for Enhancement of Lipophilicity

    Suneela Dhaneshwar and Neha Bhilare

    Chapter 5: Lipidic Prodrugs for Drug Delivery: Opportunities and Challenges

    Milica Markovic, Shimon Ben-Shabat, and Arik Dahan

    Chapter 6: The Progress of Prodrugs in Drug Solubility

    Guilherme Felipe dos Santos Fernandes, Igor Muccilo Prokopczyk, Chung Man Chin, and Jean Leandro dos Santos

    Chapter 7: Prodrugs for CNS Drug Delivery

    Katalin Prokai-Tatrai

    Chapter 8: Prodrugs for Cancer Treatment

    W.L. Stone, V. Palau and K. Krishnan

    Chapter 9: Prodrugs in Cancer Nanomedicine and Therapy

    Vikas Pandey, Tanweer Haider, Vishal Gour, Vandana Soni, and Prem N Gupta

    Chapter 10: Nitroreductases in Prodrug Therapies

    Tuğba Güngör, Ferah Cömert Önder, and Mehmet Ay  

    Chapter 11: Prodrug Approach Using Carboxylesterase: Different Substrate Specificities of Human Carboxylesterase Isozymes

    M. Takahashi and M. Hosokawa

    Chapter 12: Mathematical Models for ADME of Prodrugs

    Vipin Bhati, Navyashree V, Shamsher Singh, Pooja Chawla, and Anoop Kumar

    Chapter 13: Prodrug Approaches for Natural Products

    Sudhir Kumar Thukral, Pooja Chawla, Alok Sharma, and Viney Chawla

    Chapter 14: Biotechnology-Based Prodrug Approach for Cell-Specific Targeting: Its Theoretical Basis and Application

    Sunita Minz, Manju Rawat Singh, Deependra Singh, Arun Singh Parihar, and Madhulika Pradhan

    Biography

    Kamal Shah, Durgesh Nandini Chauhan, Nagendra Singh Chauhan, Pradeep Mishra