Smart Polymeric Nano-Constructs in Drug Delivery

Concept, Design and Therapeutic Applications

Suresh P Vyas, Udita Agrawal, Rajeev Sharma

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780323912488
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323913997
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology & Healthcare Industry

Smart Polymeric Nano-Constructs in Drug Delivery: Concept, Design and Therapeutic Applications provides a thorough discussion of the most state of the art material and polymer exploitations for the delivery of bioactive(s) as well as their current and clinical status. The book enables researchers to prepare a variety of smart drug delivery systems to investigate their properties as well as to discover their uses and applications. The novelty of this approach addresses an existing need of exhaustively understanding the potential of the materials including polymeric drug delivery systems that are smartly designed to deliver bioactive(s) into the body at targeted sites without showing side effects. The book is helpful for those in the health sector, specifically those developing nanomedicine using smart material-based nano-delivery systems. Polymers have unique co-operative properties that are not found with low-molecular-weight compounds along with their appealing physical and chemical properties, constituting the root of their success in drug delivery. Smart Polymeric Nano-Constructs in Drug Delivery: Concept, Design and Therapeutic Applications discusses smart and stimuli responsive polymers applicable in drug delivery, followed detailed information about various concepts and designing of polymeric novel drug delivery systems for treatment of various type of diseases, also discussing patents related to the field. The book helps readers to design and develop novel drug delivery systems based on smart materials for the effective delivery of bioactive that take advantage of recent advances in smart polymer-based strategies. It is useful to those in pharmaceutical sciences and related fields in developing new drug delivery systems. - Provides comprehensive overview of the potential role of polymeric systems in drug delivery - Explores the design, synthesis, and application of different smart material-based delivery systems - Includes fundamental and clinical applications

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Introduction to smart polymers and their application
• Chapter 2 : Thermoresponsive polymers: Phase behavior, drug delivery, and biomedical applications
• Chapter 3 : pH-sensitive polymeric nanocarriers for enhanced intracellular drug delivery
• Chapter 4 : Photoresponsive nanocarriers for the delivery of bioactives
• Chapter 5 : Magnetically responsive polymeric gels and elastomeric system(s) for drug delivery
• Chapter 6 : Bioadhesive and phase change polymers for drug delivery
• Chapter 7 : Block copolymer micelles as long-circulating drug vehicles
• Chapter 8 : Polymer-drug conjugates: Origins, progress to date, and future directions
• Chapter 9 : Molecularly imprinted polymers for drug delivery and biomedical applications
• Chapter 10 : Dendritic polymer macromolecular carriers for drug delivery
• Chapter 11 : Advances in hydrogel-based controlled drug-delivery systems
• Chapter 12 : Stimuli-responsive protein fibers for advanced applications
• Chapter 13 : Smart drug delivery systems and their clinical potential
• Chapter 14 : Novel biomimetic polymersomes as polymer therapeutics for drug delivery
• Chapter 15 : Bioinspired and biomimetic conjugated drug delivery system(s): A biohybrid concept combining cell(s) and drug delivery carrier(s)
• Chapter 16 : Conductive polymers and composite-based systems: A quantum leap in the drug delivery arena and therapeutics
• Chapter 17 : Nanomedicine: Principles, properties, and regulatory issues
• Chapter 18 : Polymer-matrix nanocomposites and its potential applications
• Index
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