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.
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
Authors
Pedro Fonte Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. 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 Ci�ncias do Mar (CCMAR), University of Algarve and Collaborative Researcher of iBB, Instituto Superior T�cnico, 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, Lus�ada University, in 2012. Pedro Brand�o Assistant Professor - Instituto Universit�rio Egas Moniz, Campus Universit�rio, Quinta da Granja, Portugal. PhD in Chemistry - Catalysis and SustainabilityMSc in Pharmaceutial Sciences
