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Drug Delivery Systems for Wound Healing

  • 1st Edition - November 24, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Pedro Fonte, Pedro Brandão
  • Language: English

Drug Delivery Systems for Wound Healing explores the different delivery systems and drugs used in wound healing, outlining the many pharmaceutical approaches in wound healing a… Read more

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Description

Drug Delivery Systems for Wound Healing explores the different delivery systems and drugs used in wound healing, outlining the many pharmaceutical approaches in wound healing and management. Bringing together interdisciplinary research on wound healing and management, this book offers the theory behind wound healing, but also has a strong focus on the practical approach where scientists involved in medication development can find suggestions. Where appropriate, clinical outcomes are given so the book can be useful as a guide for the choice by medication prescription or use.

Topics in the book include types of drugs used in wound healing; types of carriers used in wound healing; clinical outcomes; biocompatibility and toxicity problems, and pipeline products. Researchers working in the pharmaceutical sciences, biomedical sciences and engineering fields will find this a useful resource.

Key features

  • Contains interdisciplinary chapters with contributions from the top experts in each field
  • Provides a summary of the delivery systems most used and those under development
  • Includes an overview about clinical outcomes

Readership

Researchers working in the pharmaceutical sciences, biomedical sciences and engineering fields. The book could also be useful to healthcare professionals such as physicians and pharmacists

Table of contents

1. Challenges in the translation of chronic wound therapeutics from bench to bedside

2. Self-healing biomaterials for wound healing

3. Polymeric drug delivery systems for wound healing

4. Role of lipid-based delivery carriers/systems in topical delivery of bioactive agents for wounds the treatment of wounds

5. Recent advances in Metallic nanoparticles for wound healing applications

6. Drug delivery systems for mouth wound healing

7. Microalgae-based delivery systems for skin healing

8. Delivery of therapeutic proteins for wound healing

9. Diverse modifications on carbohydrate polymers to improve Drug delivery systems for wound healing

10. Topical delivery systems of flavonoids for wound healing

11. Photodynamic therapy for skin wound healing: the role of porphyrin type photosensitizers

12. Photothermal and photodynamic drug delivery for dermal wounds

13. Laser-assisted drug delivery for wound healing

14. Fish skin as a model system for studies of regeneration and drug delivery studies

Review quotes

"...a compilation of cutting-edge research, technological innovations, and practical applications in the area of drug delivery systems for wound healing. One goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date reference that highlights the latest advancements in the area of drug delivery systems for wound healing....offers a practical guide to advanced wound care through innovative drug delivery technologies,...[and] addresses traditional wound care practices and their advantages and limitations, the specific drug delivery systems used in wound healing and the biomaterials used in their generation, either natural or synthetic....Color figures, diagrams, schemes, tables, and a comprehensive index support the text in an attractive, reader-friendly product....provides a detailed and up-to-date exploration of innovative concepts, materials and drug delivery systems used for wound healing, in a well-structured, comprehensive, and attractive presentation format that makes it the new standard in the field." ©Doody's Book Review Service, 2025, Marc Ilies, PhD (Temple University School of Pharmacy) Doody's Score: 96, 4 stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 28, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

PF

Pedro Fonte

Pedro Fonte is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. He is also an Integrated Member of Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMAR), University of Algarve and Collaborative Researcher of iBB, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal and LAQV, REQUIMTE, Department of Chemical Sciences - Applied Chemistry Lab of Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal. He graduated in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2010 and obtained his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences – Nanotechnologies specialty from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Portugal in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2016. He also obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Faculty of Economics and Business Management, Lusíada University, in 2012.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

PB

Pedro Brandão

PhD in Chemistry - Catalysis and Sustainability MSc in Pharmaceutial Sciences
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor - Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz, Campus Universitário, Quinta da Granja, Portugal

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