Advances in Pharmaceutical Technology for Drug Delivery Systems (PTDDS)

In this new two-volume set, Advances in Pharmaceutical Technology for Drug Delivery Systems (PTDDS), leading scientists focus on the recent progress in pharmaceutical technology for drug delivery systems and new drug targeting strategies. Each chapter covers a particular aspect of these delivery systems and relate the importance, fabrication technology, characterization, evaluation, therapeutic applications, and future perspectives by pharmaceutical scientists. Volume 1: Recent Progress in Modern Drug Targeting Strategies covers a broad range of developments in the various drug delivery systems and drug targeting strategies. It examines the solid oral drug delivery system, the most common mode of drug delivery, and details the challenges and the latest developments. It also provides a brief overview of the production, physico-chemical properties, formulations of microcarriers, nanotechnology, and liposomes as drug carrier systems. The volume covers transdermal drug delivery systems with a special focus on the management of skin diseases. It also looks at the use of hydrogels in drug carrier systems and the use of polymeric micelle systems for drug delivery and biomedical applications. The emerging role of niosomes as candidate carriers in imaging and drug delivery is also explored. Other important technologies for drug delivery covered are polymer technologies featuring polymer grafting, inter-penetrating polymer networks (IPN), and polyelectrolyte complex structures for controlled drug delivery. Volume 2: Recent Progress in Biomedical Applications covers the role of niosomes as a convenient, cheap, and stable means of delivery of therapeutics in biomedical applications. It also looks at the uses of nanotechnology for drug delivery, including nanoencapsulation of bioactive compounds, genes in biological systems via nanotechnology-based techniques, and nanotechnology-based polymeric scaffolds in tissue engineering. Other technologies discussed include electrospun technology and 3D printing technologies in fabricating drug delivery systems. The book also dedicates a chapter to the use of natural biocarriers for brain targeting, a hereto difficult area for drug delivery. A graphene-based system for drug delivery is also discussed as are bio-ceramics systems. The book provides an overview of the broad future of nanofibers in the sector of biomedical application. The two volumes together provide a comprehensive review of the advanced research and development in drug delivery systems and drug targeting strategies technology. The books will be of immense benefit to those involved in the field of drug delivery systems in both academia and industries. Students, faculty, and researchers in the field of materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, biotechnologies and the pharmaceutical industry will find the book to be of special value.