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Nasal Drug Delivery
This chapter covers the fundamentals of nasal drug delivery. Anatomical barriers to drug delivery, examples, and functions of commonly used... -
Pulmonary Drug Delivery
This chapter provides an introductory overview on concepts related to drug delivery to the lungs. Physiological barriers to lung delivery are... -
Rectal and Vaginal Drug Delivery
This chapter provides an overview of dosage forms relevant to rectal and vaginal drug delivery. Barriers to drug absorption are discussed and... -
Topical and Transdermal Drug Delivery
This chapter reviews numerous concepts relevant to drug delivery topically and transdermally. Topics covered include the skin’s function barrier,... -
Innovative Drug Delivery Systems for Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most common and one of the deadliest cancers affecting women worldwide. The mainstay treatment for breast cancer is surgery and... -
Ophthalmic and Otic Drug Delivery
This chapter introduces special considerations and formulation techniques for ophthalmic and otic drug delivery. Types of ophthalmic dosage forms are... -
CNS Drug Development and Delivery Concepts and Applications
The book covers recent advances in the field of CNS therapeutics, including opportunities posed by expanding basic knowledge related to CNS...
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Microfluidic Technologies for Precise Drug Delivery
There is a current demand for new and more sophisticated drug delivery systems (DDSs) to efficiently deliver therapeutics to the desired tissues,... -
Nano-Based Drug Delivery Systems
Nanoparticles are important for refining drug delivery. There has been a considerable increase in the number of new biotechnology-based therapeutics.... -
Drug Delivery in Biotechnology: Present and Future
Nanobiotechnology is the integration of nanotechnology with biotechnology, with a specific emphasis on the utilisation of nanoscale techniques in... -
Nanomaterial-Based Drug Delivery Systems Therapeutic and Theranostic Applications
Effective drug delivery systems are essential in maximizing the therapeutic effects of the drugs in question. This book thoroughly analyses recent...
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Synbiotics and Drug Delivery: An Introduction
In recent years tremendous research has been done to create a bridge between prebiotics and probiotics to be used as therapeutic agents as... -
Biomaterials for Controlled Drug Delivery Applications
A drug delivery system (DDS) is by definition a platform that can transfer a therapeutic agent to the disease site in order to elicit and improve the... -
Laplace Transform Based Modeling of Drug Delivery with Reversible Drug Binding in a Multilayer Tissue
ObjectiveDrug delivery from a drug-loaded device into an adjacent tissue is a complicated process involving drug transport through diffusion and...
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Drug delivery to and through the skin
Drug delivery technology has advanced significantly over >50 years, and has produced remarkable innovation, countless publications and conferences,...
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Connexin-Containing Vesicles for Drug Delivery
Connexin is a transmembrane protein present on the cell membrane of most cell types. Connexins assemble into a hexameric hemichannel known as...
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Drug Delivery Strategies in Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder affecting around ten million people worldwide. PD is an age-related... -
Quality By Design Approach for Novel Drug Delivery Systems
QbD offers several unique benefits, including deep material and process understanding, flexibility change within the design space without... -
Tumor Microenvironment-Responsive Nanoplatforms for Triggering Drug Delivery
Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality among nontransmissible diseases globally. Despite the advances in chemotherapy, the insufficient drug... -