Drug Delivery

1. Passive and Active Drug Targeting: Drug Delivery to Tumors as an Example
Vladimir P. Torchilin

2. Nanoparticle Technologies for Cancer Therapy
Frank Alexis, Eric M. Pridgen, Robert Langer, Omid C. Farokhzad

3. Biosensing and Drug Delivery at the Microscale
Andrea A. Robitzki, Randy Kurz

4. Lipid Nanoparticles: Effect on Bioavailability and Pharmacokinetic Changes
Eliana B. Souto, Rainer H. Müller

5. Viral Vectors for Gene Transfer: Current Status of Gene Therapeutics
Regine Heilbronn, Stefan Weger

6. Pulmonary Drug Delivery: Medicines for Inhalation
Andreas Henning, Stephanie Hein, Marc Schneider, Michael Bur, Claus-Michael Lehr

7. Needle-Free Vaccine Injection
Mark A. F. Kendall

8. Pharmaceutically Used Polymers: Principles, Structures, and Applications of Pharmaceutical Delivery Systems
Jayant Khandare, Rainer Haag

9. Mucoadhesive Drug Delivery Systems
Juliane Hombach, Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch

10. Intrauterine Drug Delivery for Contraception and Gynaecological Treatment: Novel Approaches
Dirk Wildemeersch

11. Drug-Eluting Medical Implants
Meital Zilberman, Amir Kraitzer, Orly Grinberg, Jonathan J. Elsner

12. Improving Oral Delivery
Franz Gabor, Christian Fillafer, Lukas Neutsch, Gerda Ratzinger, Michael Wirth

13. Transdermal Drug Delivery
Richard H. Guy

14. Targeting the Brain – Surmounting or Bypassing the Blood–Brain Barrier
Heidrun Potschka

15. Carriers in the Topical Treatment of Skin Disease
Hans Christian Korting, Monika Schäfer-Korting

16. Medical Devices for the Treatment of Eye Diseases
Tsutomu Yasukawa, Yuichiro Ogura

Keywords: Biomedicine, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology, Oncology, Dermatology, Neurology