Main description:

Herbal Bioactive-Based Drug Delivery Systems: Challenges and Opportunities provides a wide-ranging, in-depth resource for herbal bioactives, including detailed discussion of standardization and regulations. The book first explores specific drug delivery systems such as gastrointestinal, ocular, pulmonary, transdermal, and vaginal and rectal. It then discusses novel applications for nano, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, wound healing and cancer treatment. Finally, there is a section focusing on standardization and regulation which includes an enhancement of properties. This book is an essential resource for pharmacologists, pharmaceutical scientists, material scientists, botanists, and all those interested in natural products and drug delivery systems developments.

Contents:

Section I: Herbal Bioactives Based Drug Delivery Systems
1. Herbal Bioactives for Gastrointestinal Drug Delivery Systems
2. Herbal Bioactives for OcularDrug Delivery Systems
3. Herbal Bioactives for Pulmonary Drug Delivery Systems
4. Herbal Bioactives for Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems
5. Herbal Bioactives for Vaginal and Rectal Drug Delivery Systems

Section II: Novel Applications of Herbal Bioactives
6. Herbal Bioactive Based Nano Drug Delivery Systems
7. Herbal Bioactives Based Cosmetics
8. Herbal Bioactives Based Nutraceuticals
9. Herbal Bioactives for Wound Healing Application
10. Herbal Bioactives in Cancer/Tumor Treatment

Section III: Standardization, Regulation and Enhancement Issues of Herbal Bioactives
11. Standardization of Herbal Bioactive
12. Enhancement of Properties of Herbal Bioactives for Drug Delivery Applications
13. Regulatory Considerations of Herbal Bioactive Based Formulations