Full Description
Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science: Recent Advances in Nanocarriers covers nanocarrier synthesis techniques, as well as methods for encapsulating bioactive compounds. It explores the tests carried out to evaluate their pharmacological properties, in addition to investigating the recent results of clinical tests carried out for some nanocarriers. This book also addresses the most recent advances in nanocarriers and their diverse applications in modern medicine for the treatment of diseases and diagnostics. Nanocarriers play an important role in improving the treatment of diseases and diagnostic imaging as they can deliver medicines to specific locations for their actions and allow a prolonged release of the active compounds. This creates a need for researchers in academia and industry to obtain up-to-date knowledge about nanocarrier production and its pharmacological and biotechnological applications. This book contributes to this by providing the most recent and relevant topics on nanocarriers and by addressing pharmacological aspects for the treatment of various diseases, in addition to assessing the use for clinical diagnostics. So, it is a useful resource for students and researchers in the field of nanocarriers.
Contents
I. General aspects
1. Importance of nanomedicine in human health
2. Possibilities and challenges for the clinical application of nanoparticles in the treatment of diseases
3. Pre-clinical and Clinical Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of nanocarriers
II. Synthesis and functionalization of nanocarriers
4. Main techniques and methods used for the production of nanocarriers
5. Nanocarrier designs from carbon nanotubes
6. Methods for functionalization of nanocarriers
III. Drug delivery and diagnostics using nanoparticles
7. Methods for nanoencapsulation
8. Recent advances in understanding the release of drugs in nano-formulations
9. Lipid nanocarriers for the delivery of drugs to the nervous system
10. Nanoformulations for topical drugs
11. Transport of drugs using liposomes
12. Gold nanoparticles for drug delivery.
13. Overview on the use of nanostructures in diagnostic imaging
14. Quantum dot in diagnostic imaging
15. Nanostructures used in cancer imaging
IV. Nanomedicine for the treatment of diseases
16. Trends topics in nanovaccines
17. Advances in the use of nanocarriers for the treatment of neglected diseases
18. Nanocarriers for the treatment of infectious diseases
19. Biomedical applications of magnetic nanocarriers
20. Lipid nanoparticles: Pharmacological applications for the treatment of cancer
21. Nanocarriers for the treatment of inflammatory diseases
22. Selective treatment of tumors using nanocarriers
