Nanomedicine For Drug Delivery And Therapeutics

Mishra (applied chemistry, U. of Johannesburg, South Africa) offers researchers, academics, and health practitioners a review of the fundamental concepts and practical applications of nanomedicine for drug delivery and therapeutics. Focus is on the emerging concept of multifunctional nanomedicines and their opportunities. In 16 chapters, researchers working in biochemistry, biotechnology, and other areas in Europe, India, Argentina, South Africa, and the US discuss the potentiometric PVC (polyvinylchloride) membrane sensors using different approaches; current surgical interventions to treat osteochondral defects, including nanomaterials developed for osteochondral regeneration; the principles of regenerative medicine, the electrospinning process for the production of nanofibers, and advances in polymeric nanofibers in regenerative medicine; anticancer and antiviral/antibacterial agents and nucleic acids in delivery nanotechnology systems; and techniques for drug encapsulation, their stimuli-controlled release, passive skin permeation, and transdermal drug administration mechanisms. They also examine the cyclodextrin-based nano-carriers in various areas of drug delivery, especially oral, gene, or transdermal deliveries; current developments in gene and metal-based therapy in terms of the design of drugs for HIV treatment; applications of organic-inorganic hybrid bio-ceramics, such as stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems; applications of nanomedicines in diabetes management; and the preparative methods of nano-phosphors, their protein-conjugates, and various physical characterizations to evaluate their use in membrane isolation and nano-therapeutics. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ajay Kumar Mishra is currently working as the Director at the Centre for Nanomaterials Science and also as an associate professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, where he is a group leader of the research area for the composites/nanocomposites, water research, and bio-inorganic chemistry.