Nastruzzi, Claudio Lipospheres in Drug Targets and Delivery: Approaches, Methods, and Applications

CRC Press, 2004. - 184 p.Product Description
Lipospheres in Drug Targets and Delivery: Approaches, Methods, and Applications presents an overview of the most recent applications of lipospheres primarily in the field of medicine, pharmaceutics, and biotechnology. It includes chapters on preparation, characterization, delivery (of peptides, proteins, vaccines, nucleic acids), therapeutic applications to different systems, and suggestions for further research. Including numerous illustrations, tables, and photos, this book provides procedures for specific applications and biological systems and presents lipospheres as a technical solution to various problems associated with the controlled release of biochemicals.Solid lipid nanoparticles - concepts, procedures, and physicochemical aspects
Production of lipospheres for bioactive compound delivery
Characterization of solid lipid nano- and microparticles
Lipospheres as delivery systems for peptides and proteins
Lipospheres for vaccine delivery
Solid lipid nanoparticles : interaction with cells, cytokine production, and enzymatic degradation
Delivery of lipophilic compounds with lipid nanoparticles - applications in dermatics and for transdermal therapy
Cationic lipospheres as delivery systems for nucleic acid molecules