/ Nicholas A. Peppas, J. Ach Hilt and J. Brock Thomas
Wymondham
: Horizon Bioscience
, 2007
x, 440p.
: ill., tabs., diags.
; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Part I.Intelligent Therapeutics and Responsive Delivery Systems for Improved Absorption and Delivery: Concepts of Medical Chronobiology, Chronopharmacology and Chronotherapeutics as the Basis for Applications of Drug Delivery Technology; Feedback Control in Drug Delivery; Advances in Drug Delivery Technologies for Nanoparticulates; Synthetic Ligand-Receptor Interactions In Delivery Systems; Nanoscale Analysis of Mucus-Carrier Interactions for Improved Drug Absorption; Polymeric Gene Delivery Vectors.- Part II. Therapeutic Micro- and Nanodevices: Biohybrid Materials for Therapeutic Devices.- Part III. Nanostructured Therapeutic Materials: Biomimetic Systems: A Synergy of Scientific and Engineering Approaches; Hydrogel Nanocomposites For Intelligent Therapeutics; Nanotechnology for Treating Bone Disorders; Nanotechnology And Cancer Therapy; Nanostructured Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Section.- part IV: Nanoparticulate Systems in Intelligent Therapy; Star Polymers and Dendrimers in Nanotechnology and Drug Delivery; Ionic Nanoparticulate Systems for Drug Delivery; Nanospheres of Intelligent Networks for Biomedical and Drug Delivery Applications; Shell Crosslinked Nanoparticles: A Progress Report of Their Design for Drug Delivery; Nanoparticulate Structures in Diabetes Treatment.