Biodegradable Polymers in Clinical Use and Clinical Development

Biodegradable Polymers in Clinical Use and Clinical Development......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 15
Part I: General......Page 19
1: Biodegradable Polymers in Drug Delivery: Jay Prakash Jain, Wubante Yenet, Abraham J. Domb, and Neeraj Kumar......Page 21
Part II: Biodegradable Polymers of Natural Origin: Protein-Based Polymers......Page 77
2: Collagen: Wahid Khan, Deepak Yadav, Abraham J. Domb, and Neeraj Kumar......Page 79
3: Properties and Hemostatic Application of Gelatin: Jalindar Totre, Diana Ickowicz, and Abraham J. Domb......Page 109
Part III: Biodegradable Polymers of Natural Origin: Polysaccharides......Page 129
4: Chitosan and Its Derivatives in Clinical Use and Applications: Anuradha Subramanian, Kirthanashri Srinivasan Vasanthan,Uma Maheswari Krishnan, and Swaminathan Sethuraman......Page 131
5: Clinical Uses of Alginate: Udi Nussinovitch and Amos Nussinovitch......Page 155
6: Dextran and Pentosan Sulfate — Clinical Applications: Ramu Parthasarathi and Athipettah Jayakrishnan......Page 203
7: Arabinogalactan in Clinical Use: Rajendra P. Pawar, Babasaheb A. Kushekar, Bhaskar S. Jadhav, Kiran R. Kharat, Ravikumar M. Borade, and Abraham J. Domb......Page 235
Part IV: Biodegradable Polymers of Natural Origin: Polyesters......Page 265
8: Polyhydroxyalkanoate: Kesaven Bhubalan, Wing-Hin Lee, and Kumar Sudesh......Page 267
Part V: Synthetic Biodegradable Polymers......Page 335
9: Lactide and Glycolide Polymers: Kevin Letchford, Anders Södergard, David Plackett, Samuel Gilchrist, and Helen Burt......Page 337
10: Polyanhydrides-Poly(CPP-SA), Fatty-Acid-Based Polyanhydrides: Ravikumar M. Borade, Abraham J. Domb, Archana A. Sawale, Rajendra P. Pawar, and Kiran R. Kharat......Page 385
11: Poly(&03B5;-Caprolactone-co-Glycolide): Biomedical Applications of a Unique Elastomer: Kevin Cooper, Aruna Nathan, and Murty Vyakarnam......Page 419
12: Medicinal Applications of Cyanoacrylate: Rajendra P. Pawar, Ashok E. Jadhav, Sumangala B. Tathe, Bhimrao C. Khade, and Abraham J. Domb......Page 435
13: Polyethylene Glycol in Clinical Application and PEGylated Drugs: Teerapol Srichana, and Tan Suwandecha......Page 469
Part VI: Inorganic Polymers......Page 513
14: Calcium-Phosphate-Based Ceramics for Biomedical Applications: Qing Lv, Kevin W.-H. Lo, Lakshmi S. Nair, and Cato T. Laurencin......Page 515
Part VII: Biodegradable Polymers for Emerging Clinical Uses......Page 537
15: Biocompatible Polymers for Nucleic Acid Delivery: Jeff Sparks, and Khursheed Anwer......Page 539
16: Biodegradable Polymers for Emerging Clinical Use in Tissue Engineering: Shalini Verma, Kalpna Garkhal, Anupama Mittal, and Neeraj Kumar......Page 583
17: Injectable Polymers: Shimon A. Unterman, Norman A. Marcus, and Jennifer H. Elisseeff......Page 649
Part VIII: IPR Aspects of Biodegradable Polymers......Page 683
18: Global Patent and Technological Status of Biodegradable Polymers in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering: Parikshit Bansal, Shalini Verma, Wahid Khan, and Neeraj Kumar......Page 685
Index......Page 745