Polymeric Biomaterials

Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Applications, Volume 2

Severian Dumitriu, Valentin Popa

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040207253
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Materials Science

Biomaterials have had a major impact on the practice of contemporary medicine and patient care. Growing into a major interdisciplinary effort involving chemists, biologists, engineers, and physicians, biomaterials development has enabled the creation of high-quality devices, implants, and drug carriers with greater biocompatibility and biofunctiona

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Frontmatter
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Editors
• Contributors
•  1 Antithrombin-Heparin Complexes
•  2 Glucose-Sensitive Hydrogels
•  3 Advances in Polymeric and Lipid-Core Micelles as Drug Delivery Systems
•  4 Modular Biomimetic Drug Delivery Systems
•  5 Polymeric Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
•  6 Drug Carrier Systems for Anticancer Agents
•  7 Application of Polymer Drugs to Medical Devices and Preparative Medicine
• 8 Polymer Implants for Intratumoral Drug Delivery and Cancer Therapy
• 9 Biological Stimulus-Responsive Hydrogels
•  10 Polymeric Materials for Surface Modification of Living Cells
•  11 Biomedical Applications of Shape Memory Polymers and Their Nanocomposites
•  12 Bioadhesive Drug Delivery Systems
•  13 Nanomedicines Coming of Age
•  14 Polymers for Myocardial Tissue Engineering
•  15 Acellular Tubular Grafts Constructed from Natural Materials in Vascular Tissue Engineering
•  16 pH-Responsive Polymers for Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics
•  17 Adhesive Biomaterials for Tissue Repair and Reconstruction
•  18 Polymeric Interactions with Drugs and Excipients
•  19 Manufacturing Multifunctional Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
•  20 Virus-Based Nanoparticles as Drug Delivery Systems
•  21 Polymeric Biomaterials in Pulmonary Drug Delivery
•  22 Polymeric Gene Delivery Carriers for Pulmonary Diseases
•  23 Biomedical Application of Membranes in Bioartificial Organs and Tissue Engineering
•  24 Controlled Release Systems for Bone Regeneration
•  25 Controlled Release Systems Targeting Angiogenesis
•  26 Bioceramics for Development of Bioartificial Liver
•  27 Materials Biofunctionalization for Tissue Regeneration
•  28 Polymers-Based Devices for Dermal and Transdermal Delivery