Frontiers in Drug Design and Discovery, Volume (2)

Contents......Page 2
Editorial: “Biomarkers to Biosensors – Technologies and Applications to Improve the Drug Discovery Process”......Page 5
Strategies of Biomarker Discovery for Drug Development......Page 8
Protein and Antibody Microarrays: Clues Towards Biomarker Discovery......Page 26
The Use of Biomarkers to Detect Cervical Neoplasia and to Diagnose High-Grade Cervical Disease......Page 37
New Developments in the Field of Protein and Metabolism Assays Aimed at Drug Discovery Processes......Page 57
Proteomic Screening for Novel Therapeutic Targets in Kidney Diseases......Page 89
Aptamer-Based Technologies as New Tools for Proteomics in Diagnosis and Therapy......Page 105
Recent Developments in Proteomics: Mass Spectroscopy and Protein Arrays......Page 122
NMR Spectroscopy Based Metabonomics: Current Technology and Applications......Page 152
NMR-Based Metabonomics of Urine from An Exploratory Study of Ciprofibrate in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus......Page 175
Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Based Metabonomic Analytical Methods......Page 192
OWLS—A Versatile Technique for Drug Discovery......Page 209
Cell-Based Biosensors in Proteomic Analysis......Page 222
Current Approaches in Natural Biopolymer- Nanoparticle Hybrid Functional Materials: From Drug Delivery to Bio-Detection Applications......Page 237
Spectroscopic Analysis of Cell Physiology and Function......Page 255
Encapsulated Biomolecules Using Sol-Gel Reaction for High-Throughput Screening......Page 269
Modeling of Environmentally Sensitive Hydrogels for Drug Delivery: An Overview and Recent Developments......Page 291
Polyelectrolyte Nanocapsules – Promising Progress in Development of New Drugs and Therapies......Page 328
Contributors......Page 344
SUBJECT INDEX TO VOLUME 2......Page 348