Positive and Negative Interactions of Clay and Clay Minerals with Human Health

Figueiredo Gomes, Celso de Sousa/ Ferreira da Silva, Eduardo Anselmo/ Pereira Silva, João Baptista

Cambridge Scholars Publishing（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 514 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781036462161

Full Description

This book provides students and researchers worldwide with much-updated scientific data, generic and specific, of both positive and negative interactions of clay and clay minerals on human health and living quality, either externally/topically applied (mud therapy and pelotherapy) or internally applied (clayey soil and edible clay geophagy). It is particularly addressed to upper-level undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate students and researchers doing studies and research. Particularly in the last decade, and as the output of scientific and technical developments has increased, so-called clay-drug hybrid materials and clay-drug delivery systems have become a matter of extensive biomedical research and application, both as formulation additives and drug carriers using a variety of routes, including oral release of active substances. Based on special clay minerals, this collection gathers too integrative transdermal and local administration, drug encapsulation, and the formation of bactericidal clay mineral surfaces following laboratorial modification.