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Drug Delivery

Part of the book series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (HEP, volume 197)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Nanoparticle Technologies for Cancer Therapy

      • Frank Alexis, Eric M. Pridgen, Robert Langer, Omid C. Farokhzad
      Pages 55-86
    3. Biosensing and Drug Delivery at the Microscale

      • Andrea A. Robitzki, Randy Kurz
      Pages 87-112
  3. Devices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Lipid Nanoparticles: Effect on Bioavailability and Pharmacokinetic Changes

      • Eliana B. Souto, Rainer H. Müller
      Pages 115-141
    3. Viral Vectors for Gene Transfer: Current Status of Gene Therapeutics

      • Regine Heilbronn, Stefan Weger
      Pages 143-170
    4. Pulmonary Drug Delivery: Medicines for Inhalation

      • Andreas Henning, Stephanie Hein, Marc Schneider, Michael Bur, Claus-Michael Lehr
      Pages 171-192
    5. Needle-Free Vaccine Injection

      • Mark A. F. Kendall
      Pages 193-219
    6. Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery Systems

      • Juliane Hombach, Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch
      Pages 251-266
    7. Drug-Eluting Medical Implants

      • Meital Zilberman, Amir Kraitzer, Orly Grinberg, Jonathan J. Elsner
      Pages 299-341
  4. Clinical and Preclinical Application of Therapeutics for Systemic Use

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 343-343
    2. Improving Oral Delivery

      • Franz Gabor, Christian Fillafer, Lukas Neutsch, Gerda Ratzinger, Michael Wirth
      Pages 345-398
    3. Transdermal Drug Delivery

      • Richard H. Guy
      Pages 399-410
  5. Clinical and Preclinical Application of Therapeutics for Topical Use

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 433-433
    2. Carriers in the Topical Treatment of Skin Disease

      • Hans Christian Korting, Monika Schäfer-Korting
      Pages 435-468

About this book

In the view of most experts pharmacology is on drugs, targets, and actions. In the context the drug as a rule is seen as an active pharmaceutical ingredient and not as a complex mixture of chemical entities of a well defined structure. Today, we are becoming more and more aware of the fact that delivery of the active compound to the target site is a key. The present volume gives a topical overview on various modern approaches to drug targeting covering today’s options for specific carrier systems allowing successful drug treatment at various sites of the body difficult to address and allowing to increase the benefit-risk-ratio to the optimum possible.

Editors and Affiliations

  • FB Biologie, Chemie, Pharmazie, Inst. Pharmazie, FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Monika Schäfer-Korting

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