Overview
Explores the biology of mucosal tissues and their interactions with biopharmaceuticals and their delivery systems
Highlights the biological features justifying the use of different human mucosa as delivery routes for biopharmaceuticals
Examines technological strategies and challenges of creating new biopharmaceutical drugs
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Delivery Strategies for Specific Mucosal Sites
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Case Studies of Mucosal Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
José das Neves is a researcher at Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde-Norte, CESPU, Gandra, and in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal, where he earned a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences. His previous work has spanned multiple aspects of the development of vaginal drug delivery systems, and his current research interests include the development of nanotechnology-based solutions for the development of anti-HIV microbicides and mucosal delivery of biopharmaceuticals.
Bruno Sarmento is an affiliated researcher at INEB – Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, University of Porto, Portugal. He is also an assistant professor of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical technology at Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde-Norte, CESPU, Gandra, Portugal. He earned a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Porto. He has extensive work in the development of nanocarriers for the oral delivery of biopharmaceuticals—namely insulin—and the establishment of novel in vitro intestinal permeability models. His current research focuses on nanomedicines and their applications in the pharmaceutical and biomedical fields.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mucosal Delivery of Biopharmaceuticals
Book Subtitle: Biology, Challenges and Strategies
Editors: José das Neves, Bruno Sarmento
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9524-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9523-9Published: 04 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7838-7Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-9524-6Published: 03 February 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 601
Number of Illustrations: 111 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology, Pharmacology/Toxicology