Natural polymers for drug delivery

✍ Scribed by Harsha Kharkwal, Srinivas Janaswamy

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Natural polymers have been utilized extensively in food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, textiles, oil drilling and paint industries. Their non-toxic and inexpensive attributes readily enhance their commercial acceptability and make them potent agents in lieu of synthetic polymers.

This book explores the opportunistic utility of natural polymers in developing effective drug delivery systems and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of their source, chemical structure and mechanism of action. Covering novel polymers for drug delivery--in particular extracts from plants, microorganisms and proteins, as well as water soluble and water insoluble biodegradable polymers--it presents an encyclopedic overview of natural polymers:

quintessential roles in binding drugs towards enhancing bio-availability
modification and derivatization for targeted delivery
* role as active drugs

Natural Polymers for Drug Delivery is an invaluable resource for researchers, students and industrial scientists in the fields of biochemistry, chemistry, pharmacology and food science

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Natural polymers for drug delivery : an introduction / Bhanu Malhotra, Dr. Harsha Kharkwal, Srinivas Janaswamy --
Cellulose based polymeric systems in drug delivery / Bhanu Malhotra, Dr. Harsha Kharkwal, Dr. Madhav P. Yadav --
Hydrocolloids based hydrogels in drug delivery / Dr. Neerupma Dhiman --
Water soluble biodegradable polymers for drug delivery / Bhanu Malhotra, Dr. HarshaKharkwal, Dr. Anuradha Srivastava --
Polysaccharide based drug carriers / Srinivas Janaswamy --
Polymer based nanoparticles for drug delivery systems and cancer therapeutics / Ram Prasad, Rishikesh Pandey, Ajit Varma and Ishan Barman --
Polymer nanocomposite based biosensors for drug delivery applications / Monika Joshi --
Polymer drug conjugates : targeted drug delivery / Bhanu Malhotra, Dr. Harsha Kharkwal, Dr. Amit Kumar Tyagi --
Protein drug conjugates : a new class of biotherapeutics / Deepshikha Pande Katare, Savita Mishra, Harsha Kharkwal & SK Jain --
Microencapsulation for controlled gastrointestinal delivery of probiotics and prebiotics / Dr. Preeti Panthari, Dr. Harsha Kharkwal --
Chitosan in drug delivery and targeting for cancer treatment / Anirbandeep Bose, Tin Wui Wong --
Polymers as biodegradable matrices in transdermal drug delivery systems / Bhanu Malhotra, Dr. Harsha Kharkwal, Dr. Anuradha Srivastava --
Ocular drug delivery systems / Bhanu Malhotra, Dr. Harsha Kharkwal, Dr. Anupam Pradhan --
Polymers targeting habitual diseases / Bhanu Malhotra, Dr. Preeti Panthari, Dr. Harsha Kharkwal, Dr. Madhav P. Yadav --
Bioengineered wound and burn healing substitutes : novel design for biomedical applications and general aspects / Erdal Cevher, Ali Demir Sezer and Ayca Yildiz Peköz.

✦ Subjects

Polymeric drug delivery systems.;Drug delivery systems.;Polymers.;Drug Delivery Systems.