Microencapsulation provides practical approaches to complex formulation problems encountered in the development of particulate delivery systems at the micro- and nano-size level.

Features:

• Covers the latest developments in the production of polymeric micro- and nanoparticles, lipospheres, solid lipid particles, liposomes, amphiphilic cyclodextrin-based nanoparticles, flexible vesicles, emulsions, double emulsions, and microemulsions
• Considers opportunities and challenges associated with the use of small-scale polymeric and lipid delivery systems for injectable, topical, ocular, and oral administration
• Allows readers to easily compare the processing, manipulation, production, physicochemical characterizations, biological evaluations, and therapeutic potentials of various microsystems and nanosystems
• Studies the utilization of colloidal carriers when designed for vaccine, brain, ocular, or transdermal delivery
• Offers a comprehensive approach to increase the oral bioavailability of poorly absorbed lipophilic drugs using self-emulsifying oral lipid-based formulations
• Analyzes various kinetic models used to characterize drug-release profiles
• Stresses the need for efficient drug targeting delivery systems by presenting different coupling techniques for the formation of drug-colloidal carrier conjugates

Contents

• Methods of Encapsulation and Advances in Production Technology
• Biodegradable microspheres: Advances in production technology
• Advances in the technology for controlled release pesticide formulations
• Multiparticulate pulsatile drug delivery systems
• Microencapsulation techniques for parenteral depot systems and their application in the pharmaceutical industry
• Coupling methods to obtain ligand-targeted liposomes and nanoparticles
• Industrial technologies and scale up
• Evaluation and Characterization of Micro- and Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery Systems
• Drug release from microparticulate systems
• Manufacture, characterization and applications of solid lipid nanoparticles as drug delivery systems
• Amphiphilic cyclodextrins and microencapsulation
• Lipospheres for controlled delivery of substances
• Pharmaceutical aspects of liposomes: Academic and industrial research and development
• Microemulsions for solubilization and delivery of nutraceuticals and drugs
• Applications of Particulate Delivery Systems
• Self-emulsifying oral lipid-based formulations for improved delivery of lipophilic drugs
• Recent advances in heparin delivery
• Particulate systems for oral drug delivery
• Vesicles as a tool for dermal and transdermal delivery
• Lipid and polymeric colloidal carriers for ocular drug delivery
• The use of drug-loaded nanoparticles in cancer chemotherapy
• Development of 5-FU-loaded PLGA microparticles for the treatment of glioblastoma
• Nanoparticulates as drug delivery systems for the brain
• Cosmetic applications of colloidal delivery systems

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