Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery and Pharmaceuticals

Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Sciences presents various drug-delivery techniques that utilize nanotechnology for the biomedical domain, highlighting both therapeutic and diagnostic applications. It provides important facts and detailed studies on different promising nanocarriers like liposomes, exosomes, and virus-based nanocarriers. Moreover, it explores these nanocarriers' utilization in the therapeutic applications of various diseases such as cancer, inflammation, neurodegenerative disorders like Huntington’s disease, and Alzheimer's disease, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and inflammatory bowel disease. Nanotechnology for Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Sciences provides a detailed description of nanotechnology and its applications in drug delivery and covers the role of nanotechnology in pharmaceuticals. The book describes how nanotechnology has efficiently overtaken conventional dosage forms and provided comfort and ease to the patient. The pharmaceutical nanoparticle can be described as the sub-nanosized structures containing drugs or bioactive substances made up of several tens or hundreds of atoms or molecules in needles, spherical, crystalline, or amorphous morphologies. Relevant information regarding market trends, patents, and social-economic factors are also provided making it the perfect reference for doctors, researchers, and scientists who are working in the fields of medicine, biochemistry, biotechnology, nanobiotechnology or pharmaceutical sciences. Provides a compilation of both drug-delivery applications and pharmaceutical applications of nanotechnology Gives a brief description of the utilization of nanotechnology in the drug-delivery domain Highlights the properties of nanocarriers, their diagnostic and imaging applications as well as their potential role in clinical diagnosis Focuses on future developments and possibilities, allowing the reader to enhance and explore the remaining gaps