edited by Mauro Magnani

Erythrocyte Engineering for Drug Delivery and Targeting focuses on the old and new biomedical applications of engineered red blood cells based on the specific functions of the processed cells.

Contents

1. Red Blood Cell Loading: A Selection of Procedures
2. Towards Activated Release of Payloads from Carrier Erythrocytes
3. Targeting Drug Loaded Red Blood Cells
4. Streptavidin-Mediated Coupling of Therapeutic Proteins to Carrier Erythrocytes
5. Vaccination Strategy Using Red Blood Cells as Antigen Delivery System
6. Engineered Nanoerythrocytes as a Novel Drug Delivery System
7. Red Blood Cells as Carriers of Antiviral Agents
8. Erythrocytes as Carriers of Anthracycline Antibiotics
9. Drug-Loaded Red Blood Cells for the Control of the Inflammatory Response: Selective Targeting of Nuclear Factor-kB (NF-kB)
10. Design and Synthesis of New pro-Drugs to be Used with Carrier Red Blood Cells
11. Evolutionary Computation for the Interpretation of Metabolomic Data
12. Engineered Red Blood Cells as Circulating Bioreactors

Index

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