Targeting of Drugs 6 [electronic resource] : Strategies for Stealth Therapeutic Systems /

Interactions between Blood Components and Artificial Surfaces -- The Mononuclear Phagocyte System: Features Relevant to Interactions with Liposomes -- Stealth™ Therapeutic Systems: Rationale and Strategies -- Long Circulating Liposomes: Evolution of the Concept -- Sterically Stabilized Immunoliposomes: Formulations for Delivery of Drugs and Genes to Tumor Cells in Vivo. -- Pegylation of Liposomes in Cell-Specific Targeting: It Does Not Always Make Sense -- Stealth™ Liposomes for the Targeting of Drugs in Cancer Therapy -- Stealth™ Liposomes as Carriers of Doxorubicin -- Liposome-Mediated Delivery of Retinoids -- Applications of Liposome Technology to Overcome Multidrug Resistance in Solid Tumors -- Use of Radiolabeled Liposomes for PEG-Liposome-Based Drug Targeting and Diagnostic Imaging Applications -- Diagnostic and Therapeutic Targeting of Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases Using Sterically Stabilized Liposomes -- Biologically Active Ligand-Bearing Polymer-Grafted Liposomes -- Engineering Stealth™ Liposome Surfaces: Exercises in Colloid Chemistry Principles -- The Role of Hydration in Stabilization of Liposomes: Resistance to Oxidative Damage of PEG-Grafted Liposomes -- Physicochemical Characterization of DOTAP-Containing Lipoplexes by Fluorescent Probes: Relevance to Lipofection -- Steric Stabilization of Cationic Liposome-DNA Complexes: Influence on Morphology and Transfection Activity -- Polysialic Acids: Potential for Long Circulating Drug, Protein, Liposome and Other Microparticle Constructs -- Tailor-Made Soluble Polymer Carriers -- Development of Novel Technologies for the Synthesis of Biodegradable Pegylated Nanoparticles -- Development of a New Class of Nanoparticles which Avoid Phagocytosis by Inhibiting Complement Activation -- Coating of Nanoparticles with Surfactants: Targeting versus Prolonged Circulation -- Recent Developments and Limitations of Poloxamine-Coated Long-Circulating Particles in Experimental Drug Delivery -- PEG-Coated Nanospheres: Surface Optimization and Therapeutic Applications -- Participants’ Photograph -- Contributors.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Gregoriadis, Gregory. editor., McCormack, Brenda. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1998
Subjects:	Medicine., Pharmacology., Biomedicine., Pharmacology/Toxicology.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0127-9
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