Biomedical Aspects of Drug Targeting
Contributors: Vladimir R. Muzykantov (Editor); Vladimir P. Torchilin (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: February 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781402072321
Subjects: Biomedical engineering; Pharmacology; Drug Delivery Systems; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Pharmacy; Biotechnology; Medical / Biotechnology; Medical / Pharmacology; Medical : Biotechnology; Medical : Pharmacy; Drug targeting
First sentence: The specificity of pharmaceuticals towards disease sites or individual diseases is usually based on a drug's ability to interfere with local pathological processes or with defective biological pathways, but not on its selective accumulation in the specific intracellular compartment or in the target cell, organ or tissue.