Bio-targets and drug delivery approaches

Content: Chapter 1. Basic concepts in drug targeting / Kalyan Kumar Sen and Sabyasachi Maiti --
Chapter 2. Biological targets : identification, selection and validation / Rana Datta and Sugata Banerjee --
Chapter 3. Emerging therapeutic targets for diabetes / Sudipta Saha, Ashok K. Singh, Amit K. Keshari, Priya Singh Kushwaha, and Siddhartha Maity --
Chapter 4. Prodrug strategy : an effective tool in drug delivery and targeting / Buddhadev Layek, Shubhajit Paul, and Jagdish Singh --
Chapter 5. Drug targeting strategies to CNS disorders / Somasree Ray --
Chapter 6. Natural polymers in colon targeting : approaches and future perspectives / Sougata Jana, Arijit Gandhi, and Subrata Jana --
Chapter 7. Lymphatic drug targeting / Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, Biswanath Sa --
Chapter 8. New drug targets and drug delivery strategies for various ocular disorders / Subramanian Natesan, Venkateshwaran Krishnaswami, Saranya Radhakrishnan, Vaishnavi Suresh Kumar, Nirmal Sonali, Jayabalan Nirmal, and Shovanlal Gayen --
Chapter 9. Bone-targeted drug delivery systems / Amit Kumar Nayak and Kalyan Kumar Sen --
Chapter 10. Targeted drug delivery in solid tumours : an overview and novel approaches for therapy / Mintu Pal and Lay Poh Tan --
Chapter 11. Mitochondria as an emerging target for the delivery of small therapeutic molecules / Avik Das, Sabyasachi Maiti, and Kalyan Kumar Sen --
Chapter 12. Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated target-specific gene silencing : design, delivery strategies and therapeutic applications / Biswajit Mukherjee, Samrat Chakraborty, Laboni Mondal, Ankan Choudhury, Bhabani Sankar Satapathy, and Sanchari Bhattacharya --
Chapter 13. Biodegradable polymeric carriers for delivery of SIMA / Sanika A. Rege, Sudip K. Das, and Nandita G. Das --
Chapter 14. Organic-inorganic nanocomposites for biomedical applications / Subham Banerjee and Animesh Ghosh --
Chapter 15. Carbon nanotube-induced targeted drug delivery / Anish Bhattacharya and Amit K. Chakraborty --
Chapter 16. Functionalized cyclodextrin : a versatile supramolecular systems for drug delivery / Subrata Jana and Sougata Jana --
Chapter 17. Nanopolymer scaffolds as novel carriers for cells and drugs / Aum Solanki, Bhargav Hirapara, Emily Johnson, and Yashwant Pathak --
Chapter 18. Bio-targets for polyionic glucan derivatives and their nano-therapeutic systems / Manabendra Dhua, Kalyan Kumar Sen, and Sabyasachi Maiti --
Chapter 19. Novel carriers for targeted delivery of herbal medicines / Sankhadip Bose --
Chapter 20. Toxicological concerns related to nanoscale drug delivery systems / Sabyasachi Maiti, Sanmoy Karmakar, and Kumar Anand.