Drug Delivery Systems - An Overview -- The Role of the Adeno-Associated Virus Capsid in Gene Transfer -- Delivering Small Interfering RNA for Novel Therapeutics -- Catheters for Chronic Administration of Drugs into Brain Tissue -- Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems: Skin Perturbation Devices -- Controlling the Release of Proteins/Peptides via the Pulmonary Route -- Engineering Protein Particles for Pulmonary Drug Delivery -- 2B-Trans™ Technology: Targeted Drug Delivery Across the Blood-Brain Barrier -- Drug Delivery in Cancer Using Liposomes -- pH-Responsive Nanoparticles for Cancer Drug Delivery -- Extended-Release Oral Drug Delivery Technologies: Monolithic Matrix Systems.

The field of drug development and therapeutics can be overwhelmingly encyclopedic and vast. In Drug Delivery Systems, Dr. Kewal Jain and a team of experts select the most important, cutting-edge technologies used in drug delivery systems taking into account significant drugs, new technologies such as nanoparticles, and therapeutic applications. The chapters present step-by-step laboratory protocols following the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, offering readily reproducible results vital for pharmaceutical physicians and scientists. Concise and systematic, Drug Delivery Systems is a powerful reference tool for the hundreds of companies developing drug delivery technologies all around the world.