Drug targeting technology
Subtitle: physical, chemical, biological methods
By: edited by Hans Schreier.
Contributors: Schreier, Hans, 1949-
Series: Drugs and the pharmaceutical sciences -- 115.; Drugs and the pharmaceutical sciences -- v. 115.
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Drug targeting.; Drug Delivery Systems.; Drug Administration Routes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Physical targeting approaches. Enteric targeting through enteric coating; title: New experimental coating material for colon-specific drug delivery; title: Pharmacokinetic considerations in the design of pulmonary drug delivery sysystems for gluccocorticoids; title: Lipid-based formulations for oral administration: opportunities for bioavailability enchancement and lipoprotein targeting of lipophilic drugs; title: Topical application of drugs: mechanisms involved in chemical enhancement; title: pt. 2. Chemical targeting approaches. Drug targeting by retrometabolic design: soft drugs and chemical delivery systems; title: Neoglyco- and neopeptide albumins for cell-specific delivery of drugs to chronically diseases livers; title: pt. 3. Biological targeting approaches. Gene delivery with artificial viral envelopes; title: Evolution of viral liposomes: improvements and applications; title: Targeting of viral vectors for cancer gene therapy.