Main description:

This book is part of a series dedicated to recent advances on preventive, predictive and personalised medicine (PPPM). It focuses on the theme of "Drug delivery systems: advanced technologies potentially applicable in personalised treatments". The critical topics involving the development and preparation of effective drug delivery systems, such as: polymers available, self-assembly, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical formulations, three dimensional structures, molecular modeling, tailor-made solutions and technological tendencies, are carefully discussed. The understanding of these areas constitutes a paramount route to establish personalised and effective solutions for specific diseases and individuals.

Contents:

1. Polymers in Drug Delivery: Concepts, Developments and Potential; Rongjun Chen

2. Amphiphilic Molecules in Drug Delivery Systems; Salome dos Santos, Bruno Medronho, Tiago dos Santos and Filipe E. Antunes

3. Sizing nanoparticles in liquids: an overview of methods; Margarida Figueiredo

4. Nanoparticles for oral delivery of insulin; Antonio J Ribeiro, Raquel Seica and Francisco Veiga

5. Bioartificial pancreas: in the road to clinical application; Joana Crisostomo, Jorge F J Coelho and Raquel Seica

6. Cationic liposome-based systems for nucleic acid delivery: from the formulation development to therapeutic applications; Henrique Faneca, Ana Luisa Cardoso, Sara Trabulo, Sonia Duarte and Maria C. Pedroso de Lima

7. Biomaterial-based vectors for targeted delivery of nucleic acids to the nervous system; Ana Paula Pego, Hugo Oliveira and Pedro Moreno

8. Three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds as drug delivery devices for Tissue engineering applications; Marcos Domingos, H.Almeida and Paulo Bartolo

9. The Warburg Effect is a Guide to Multipurpose Cancer Therapy Including Trace Element Delivery; Anatoliy V. Popov and Leonid G. Menchikovb

10. In silico research in drug delivery systems; Andre Filipe Ferreira, Rodrigo Jose Lopes, and Pedro Nuno Simoes

11. The Importance of Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization Techniques in the Design of Tailor Made Nanoparticles for DSS; Nuno Rocha, Patricia Mendonca, Joana Gois, Rosemeyre Cordeiro, Ana Fonseca, Tamaz Guliashvili, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Armenio Serra and Jorge Coelho