Preface ...................................................... xiii
Editor ........................................................ xxi
Contributors ................................................ xxiii
Chapter 1 Surfactants and Block Copolymers in Drug Delivery .... 1
Ambikanandan Misra, Kiruba Florence, Manisha Lalan,
and Tapan Shah
Chapter 2 Application of Colloidal Properties in Drug
Delivery ............................................ 55
Swarnlata Saraf
Chapter 3 Polymeric Nanocapsules for Drug Delivery: An
Overview ............................................ 71
Sílvia S. Guterres, Fernanda S. Poletto, Leticia
M. Colomé, Renata P. Raffin, and Adriana
R. Pohlmann
Chapter 4 Poly(Alkyl Cyanoacrylate) Nanoparticles for Drug
Delivery and Vaccine Development .................... 99
Anja Graf, Karen Krauel-Göllner, and Thomas Rades
Chapter 5 Stimuli-Sensitive Polymer Gels for Dermal and
Transdermal Drug Delivery and Their Application in
the Development of Smart Textile Materials ......... 137
Witold Musial and Vanja Kokol
Chapter 6 Micelles: The Multifunctional Nanocarrier for
Colloidal Drug Delivery ............................ 157
Chandana Mohanty, Sarbari Acharya, and Sanjeeb
K. Sahoo
Chapter 7 Multiple Emulsions: An Overview and
Pharmaceutical Applications ........................ 177
Jatin Khurana, Somnath Singh, and Alekha K. Dash
Chapter 8 Pharmaceutical and Biotechnological Applications
of Multiple Emulsions .............................. 203
Rita Cortesi and Elisabetta Esposito
Chapter 9 Nanoemulsions as Drug Delivery Systems ............. 221
Figen Tirnaksiz, Seyda Akkus, and Nevin Celebi
Chapter 10 Microemulsion Systems: Application in Delivery of
Poorly Soluble Drugs ............................... 245
Ljiljana Djekic and Marija Primorac
Chapter 11 Diclofenac Solubilization in Mixed Nonionic
Surfactants Microemulsions ......................... 271
Monzer Fanun
Chapter 12 Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery Systems ............. 299
D.P. Maurya, Yasmin Sultana, and M. Abul Kalam
Chapter 13 Liquid Crystals and Their Application in the
Field of Drug Delivery ............................. 311
Rakesh Patel and Tanmay N. Patel
Chapter 14 Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles as Drug
Nanocarriers ....................................... 337
Anan Yaghmur and Michael Rappolt
Chapter 15 Niosomal Delivery System for Macromolecular
Drugs .............................................. 355
Yongzhuo Huang, Faquan Yu, and Wenquan Liang
Chapter 16 A New Class of Mesoscopic Aggregates as a Novel
Drug Delivery System ............................... 365
Federico Bordi, Cesare Cametti, and Simona Sennato
Chapter 17 Liposomes and Biomacromolecules: Effects of
Preparation Protocol on In Vitro Activity .......... 395
Paola Luciani, Debora Berti, and Piero Baglioni
Chapter 18 Colloidal Nanocarrier Systems as a Tool for
Improving Antimycobacterial and Antitumor
Activities and Reducing the Toxicity of Usnic
Acid ............................................... 409
N.S. Santos-Magalhães, N.P.S. Santos, M.С.B.
Lira, M.S. Ferraz, E.C. Pereira, and N.H. Silva
Chapter 19 Dendrimers in Drug Delivery ........................ 435
Нu Yang
Chapter 20 Microsphere: A Novel Drug Delivery System .......... 455
Abdus Samad, Mohammad Tariq, Mohammed Intakhab
Alam, and M.S. Akhter
Chapter 21 Colloids in Aerosol Drug Delivery Systems .......... 479
Nazrul Islam
Chapter 22 Respiratory Aerosol Dynamics with Applications
to Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery .................... 501
Jinxiang Xi, P. Worth Longest, and Paula
J. Anderson
Chapter 23 Colloidal Carriers for Drug Delivery in Dental
Tissue Engineering ................................. 527
Nader Kalaji, Nida Sheibat-Othman, and Hatem
Fessi
Chapter 24 Classification and Application of Colloidal Drug
Delivery Systems: Passive or Active Tumor
Targeting .......................................... 545
H. Yesim Karasulu, Burcak Karaca, and Ercüment
Karasulu
Chapter 25 Nanocarriers for Imaging Applications .............. 563
Vandana Patravale and Medha Joshi
Index ......................................................... 613
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