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Pulmonary Drug Delivery
This chapter provides an introductory overview on concepts related to drug delivery to the lungs. Physiological barriers to lung delivery are...
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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...
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Oral Transmucosal Delivery
This chapter is new to this edition and provides an overview of dosage forms for drug delivery via the transmucosal route, with an emphasis on buccal...
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Nanotechnology Based Delivery of Phytoconstituents and Cosmeceuticals
This book explores the role of nanotechnology in the delivery of natural phytoconstituents and cosmeceuticals. It presents polymeric nanocarriers,...
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Nanocarriers: Delivery Routes
Nanocarriers have crucial applications in medicine, mainly in drug delivery. The choice of administration route assumes significance during the drug...
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Supramolecule-Mediated Delivery of Phytochemicals
Supramolecules have shown potential in the delivery of various therapeutic agents including hydrophobic drugs, phytoconstituents, and genetic...
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Dendrimers-Mediated Delivery of Phytoconstituents
The potential for dendrimers, highly branching three-dimensional macromolecules, to function as drug delivery vehicles has been extensively...
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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...
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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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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...
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Advanced Drug Delivery Approaches Containing Synbiotics
Synbiotics have shown various beneficial effects in inflammatory bowel diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, infectious disorders, and diarrheal...
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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,...
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Nano/microformulations for Bacteriophage Delivery
Encapsulation methodologies allow the protection of bacteriophages for overcoming critical environmental conditions. Moreover, they improve the...
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Delivery of nucleic acids using nanomaterials
The increasing number of approved nucleic acid therapeutics demonstrates the potential for the prevention and treatment of a broad spectrum of...
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Design of nanoparticle-based systems for the systemic delivery of chemotherapeutics: Alternative potential routes via sublingual and buccal administration for systemic drug delivery
Conventional therapeutic approaches for cancer generally involve chemo- and radiation therapies that often exhibit low efficacy and induce toxic side...
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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,...
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RNA Nanomedicine: Delivery Strategies and Applications
Delivery of RNA using nanomaterials has emerged as a new modality to expand therapeutic applications in biomedical research. However, the delivery of...
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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....
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Enhancing in situ cancer vaccines using delivery technologies
In situ cancer vaccination refers to any approach that exploits tumour antigens available at a tumour site to induce tumour-specific adaptive immune...
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Synbiotics in Oral Drug Delivery
Gut microbiota constitutes a variety of microorganism like bacteria, fungi, virus, rickettsiae, etc. Any imbalance in gut microbiota termed as...