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Advances in Personalized Nanotherapeutics

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Tremendous growth in the field of pharmacology and therapeutics has been observed due to revolutionised development of novel drug delivery systems predominantly based on “Nanotechnology”. Treatment of wide varieties of diseases is made possible by miniaturisation of drug delivery systems. Nanotechnology delivers a unique approach, which promises higher drug efficacy, targeted drug delivery, on demand delivery, biocompatibility, etc. The importance of nanotechnology can be visualised by its ability of addressing several problems in central areas of biomedical, chemical, mechanical and electronics. Here, we discuss how nano-therapeutics can be fruitful for the treatment of brain diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Parkinson’s, cancer, Alzheimer and their drug delivery mechanism. In this regard, the challenges involved and required future developments in drug delivery systems becomes few important topics to be worked on for expanding the utilization of nano-therapeutics.

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The transition of conventional theruputics to highly effective nanotherapeutics

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Acknowledgements

The authors appreciate the financial support received from the Council of Scientific and Industrial research (CSIR), New Delhi, India for this work. I am also thankful for the financial support given by Department of Chemistry, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. Anujit Ghosal also expresses his sincere gratitude to the Government of India, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) (NPDF/2016/003866).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Anujit Ghosal & Shivani Tiwari

  2. School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

    Anujit Ghosal & Jaydeep Bhattacharya

  3. Center for Personalized Nanomedicine, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, 33199, FL, USA

    Arti Vashist

  4. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Eram Sharmin

  5. Department of Chemistry, Materials Research Laboratory, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

    Sharif Ahmad

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Ghosal, A., Vashist, A., Tiwari, S., Sharmin, E., Ahmad, S., Bhattacharya, J. (2017). Nanotechnology for Therapeutics. In: Kaushik, A., Jayant, R., Nair, M. (eds) Advances in Personalized Nanotherapeutics . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63633-7_3

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