edited by Abdelhamid Elaissari

Attesting to the recognized versatility of colloidal polymers and heightening estimations of their potential in bioscience applications, Colloidal Biomolecules, Biomaterials, and Biomedical Applications is an authoritative presentation of established and newfound techniques promising to revolutionize the areas of biomedical diagnostics, therapeutics, pharmaceutics, and drug delivery.

This exceptional book will:

• examine the utilization of magnetic latexes in the biomedical area
• investigate physical studies of the agglutination of sensitive latexes
• consider the body-antigen reaction and issues of physical adsorption, covalent coupling, and colloidal stability in latex immunoagglutination assays
• assess biospecific interactions between polymer particles and viruses
• explore the use of monodispersed latex particles for the isolation and immobilization of proteins and nucleic acids
• study the adsorption and desorption of proteic materials into thermally sensitive colloidal particles
• inspect the conformation of DNA-like polyelectrolytes in the presence of oppositely charged polymers
• record pharmaceutical and therapeutic applications for preformed polymers in the elaboration of colloidal particles
• trace advances in alkylcyanoacrylate polymerization chemistry culminating in the creation of biodegradable nanosystems and nanoparticles for cancer therapy
• analyze strategies of entrapment and attachment of bioactive compounds to poly(Σ-caprolactone) and poly(lactide) microspheres
• indicate benefits to drug delivery attainable through supercritical fluid process production of polymer particles
• and much more!

Contents

1. Biomedical Application for Magnetic Latexes
2. The Agglutination Test: Aggregation of Antibody-Coated Lattices in the Presence of Antigens
3. Latex Immunoagglutination Assays
4. Capture and Detection of Biomolecules Using Dual Colloid Particles
5. Polymers and Viruses: Biospecific Interactions and Biomedical Applications
6. Polymer Beads in Biomedical Chromatography: Separation of Biomolecules
7. Interaction of Proteins with Thermally-Sensitive Particles
8. DNA-Like Polyelectrolytes Adsorption onto Polymer Colloids: Modelization Study
9. Amino-Containing Latexes as a Solid Support of Single-Stranded DNA Fragments and Their Use in Biomedical Diagnosis
10. Covalent Immobilization of Peptides onto Reactive Latexes
11. Preparation and Applications of Silicone Emulsions Using Biopolymers
12. Colloidal Particles: Elaboration from Preformed Polymers
13. Poly(Alkylcyanoacrylates): From Preparation to Real Applications as Drug Delivery Systems
14. Preparation of Biodegradable Particles by Polymerization Processes
15. Supercritical Fluid Processes for Polymer Particle Engineering: Applications in the Therapeutic Area

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