Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; 1. Design of Stimuli-Responsive Drug Delivery Hydrogels: Synthesis and Applications; 2. Nanocomposite Hydrogels as Drug Delivery Systems; 3. Vesicles, Micelles and Cyclodextrins Immobilized into Hydrogel: Multi-component Devices for Controlled Drug Delivery; 4. Molecularly Imprinted Hydrogels for the Selective Release of Therapeutics; 5. Prodrugs and Bioconjugate Hydrogels: A Valuable Strategy for the Prolonged-Delivery of Drugs; 6. Carbohydrate based Hydrogels for Controlled Release of Cancer Therapeutics.
7. Porous Hydrogels as Carrier for Delivery of Macromolecular Drugs8. Biopolymer-based Interpenetrating Network Hydrogels for Oral Drug Delivery; 9. Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels for Parenteral Drug Delivery; 10. Hydrogels for Vaginal Drug Delivery; 11. Advances in Composite Hydrogels for Ocular Drug Delivery and Biomedical Engineering Application; 12. Hydrogels for Pulmonary Drug Delivery; Index.
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"The book deals with the synthesis and characterization of hydrogels specifically used as drug delivery systems. Each chapter includes the most recent updates about the different starting materials employed--whether natural and synthetic--and the improvement, such as modifications of synthetic approach and polymerization technique, of their physicochemical and biological properties to synthetize high performing carriers for specific uses, i.e. stimuli-responsive materials, molecularly imprinted polymers, mucoadhesive materials, carrier for the delivery of high molecular weight drugs, and gene-delivery."--Provided by publisher.