Nanofibres in Drug Delivery
Author(s)
Williams, Gareth R.
Raimi-Abraham, Bahijja T.
Luo, C.J.
Language
EnglishAbstract
In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the production of nanoscale fibres for drug delivery and tissue engineering. Nanofibres in Drug Delivery aims to outline to new researchers in the field the utility of nanofibres in drug delivery, and to explain to them how to prepare fibres in the laboratory.
The book begins with a brief discussion of the main concepts in pharmaceutical science. The authors then introduce the key techniques that can be used for fibre production and explain briefly the theory behind them. They discuss the experimental implementation of fibre production, starting with the simplest possible set-up and then moving on to consider more complex arrangements. As they do so, they offer advice from their own experience of fibre production, and use examples from current literature to show how each particular type of fibre can be applied to drug delivery. They also consider how fibre production could be moved beyond the research laboratory into industry, discussing regulatory and scale-up aspects.
Keywords
Nanofibres; Drugs; Drug deliveryDOI
10.14324/111.9781787350182ISBN
9781787350229, 9781787350236, 9781787350199, 9781787350205, 9781787350212, 9781787350182OCN
1054248207Publisher
UCL PressPublisher website
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/Publication date and place
2018Classification
Manufacturing industries
Medical specialties, branches of medicine
Therapy and therapeutics