Controlled Drug Delivery Systems

Foreword - David Williams;   Preface – Emmanuel C Opara;  Chapter 1: Introduction – Approaches to controlled drug delivery - Antonios Mikos;  Chapter 2: Chemical modifications of alginate for controlled drug delivery and regenerative medicine - Mark E. Welker;  Chapter 3: Hydrogel systems for delivery and release of cell-secreted and synthetic therapeutic products – Aleks Skardal;  Chapter 4: The effect of glutathione incorporated as chain transfer agent in thermo-sensitive hydrogels for controlled release of therapeutic proteins – V Perez-Luna;  Chapter 5: Controlled vaccine delivery – Kevin McHugh;  Chapter 6: Controlled release of hormone by pellet implants – Sivanandane Sittadjody;  Chapter 7: Delivery of ovarian hormones for bone health - Justin Saul;  Chapter 8: Controlled delivery models of bioactive factors for the maturation of engineered tissues -Ashkan Shafiee & Atala;  Chapter 9: Controlled delivery of angiogenic proteins – Eric M Brey;  Chapter 10: Controlled therapeutic delivery in wound healing – Sean Murphy;  Chapter 11: Leveraging plasma insulin estimates and wearable technologies to develop an automated insulin delivery system in Type 1 diabetes – A Cinar;  Chapter 12: New developments in oral insulin delivery – Emmanuel C Opara;  Chapter 13: Insulin delivery by a bioartficial pancreas– Will Kendall;  Chapter 14: Transdermal drug delivery - Brahmeshwar Mishra;  Chapter 15: Mucoadhesive chitosan-based nanoparticles for oral drug delivery - Shirui Mao;  Chapter 16: Liposome-based delivery of therapeutic agents –Eneida de Paula;  Chapter 17: Targeted intestinal delivery of probiotics – Emmanuel C. Opara