Drug Delivery Systems: Advanced Technologies Potentially Applicable in Personalised Treatment (eBook)

1. Polymers in Drug Delivery: Concepts, Developments and Potential; Rongjun Chen 2. Amphiphilic Molecules in Drug Delivery Systems; Salomé dos Santos, Bruno Medronho, Tiago dos Santos and Filipe E. Antunes3. Sizing nanoparticles in liquids: an overview of methods; Margarida Figueiredo4. Nanoparticles for oral delivery of insulin; Antonio J Ribeiro, Raquel Seiça and Francisco Veiga5. Bioartificial pancreas: in the road to clinical application; Joana Crisostomo, Jorge F J Coelho and Raquel Seiça6. Cationic liposome-based systems for nucleic acid delivery: from the formulation development to therapeutic applications; Henrique Faneca, Ana Luísa Cardoso, Sara Trabulo, Sónia Duarte and Maria C. Pedroso de Lima7. Biomaterial-based vectors for targeted delivery of nucleic acids to the nervous system; Ana Paula Pêgo, Hugo Oliveira and Pedro Moreno8. Three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds as drug delivery devices for Tissue engineering applications; Marcos Domingos, H.Almeida and Paulo Bartolo9. The Warburg Effect is a Guide to Multipurpose Cancer Therapy Including Trace Element Delivery; Anatoliy V. Popov and Leonid G. Menchikovb10. In silico research in drug delivery systems; André Filipe Ferreira, Rodrigo José Lopes, and Pedro Nuno Simões11. The Importance of Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization Techniques in the Design of Tailor Made Nanoparticles for DSS; Nuno Rocha, Patrícia Mendonça,  Joana Góis, Rosemeyre Cordeiro, Ana Fonseca, Tamaz Guliashvili,  Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Arménio Serra and  Jorge Coelho