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Polysaccharides for drug delivery and pharmaceutical applications
- Title
- Polysaccharides for drug delivery and pharmaceutical applications / Robert H. Marchessault, editor, François Ravenelle, editor, Xiao Xia Zhu, editor ; sponsored by the ACS Division of Cellulose and Renewable Materials.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : American Chemical Society : Distributed by Oxford University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- xv, 365 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- ACS symposium series ; 934
- Uniform Title
- ACS symposium series ; 934.
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- Note
- Developed from a symposium sponsored by the ACS Division of Cellulose and Renewable Materials at the 228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 22-26, 2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Overview of polysaccharides : nature's own polymers at the service of drug delivery / Francois Ravenelle -- 1. Fishing for proteins with magnetic cellulosic nanocrystals / Robert H. Marchessault, Glen Bremner and Gregory Chauve -- 2. Applications of cellulose and cellulose derivatives in immediate release solid dosage / Jinjiang Li and Xiaohui Mei -- 3. Hydroxypropylcellulose in oral drug delivery / Mira F. Francis, Mariella Piredda and Francoise M. Winnik -- 4. Contramid : high-amylose starch for controlled drug delivery / Francois Ravenelle and Miloud Rahmouni -- 5. Water diffusion in drug delivery systems made of high-amylose starch as studied by NMR imaging / Heloise Therien-Aubin and Xiao Xia Zhu -- 6. Cross-linked starch derivatives for highly loaded pharmaceutical formulations / Mircea Alexandru Mateescu, Pompilia Ispas-Szabo and Jerome Mulhbacher -- 7. Hyaluronan : investigations into the mode of action of hyaluronan in topical drug delivery / Marc B. Brown, Stuart A. Jones, Weijiang He and Gary P. Martin -- 8. Biomedical applications of hyaluronic acid / Samuel J. Falcone, David Palmeri and Richard A. Berg -- 9. Chitosan nanoparticles for non-viral gene therapy / Julio C. Fernandes, Marcio Jose Tiera and Francoise M. Winnik -- 10. Chitosan as a biomaterial for preparation of depot-based delivery systems / J. Grant and C. Allen -- 11. Characterization of glycol chitosan : a potential material for use in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications : a comparison of fractionation techniques / Darryl K. Knight, Stephen N. Shapka and Brian O. Amsden -- 12. Chitosan : a natural polycation with multiple applications / Eve Ruel-Gariepy and Jean-Christophe Leroux -- 13. Properties of levan and potential medical uses / J. Combie -- 14. Iron-polysaccharide composites for pharmaceutical applications / Kirill I. Shingel and Robert H. Marchessault -- 15. Polysaccharide - drug conjugates as controlled drug delivery systems / M. Nichifor and G. Mocanu -- 16. Polysaccharide hydrogels for the preparation of immunoisolated cell delivery systems / Jean-Michel Rabanel, Nicolas Bertrand, Shilpa Sant, Salma Louati and Patrice Hildgen.
- ISBN
- 0841239606 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005058193
- 9780841239609
- OCLC
- ocm62736872
- SCSB-5264618
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- Columbia University Libraries