Contents
Functionalized Nanoparticles and Chitosan-Based Functional
Nanomaterials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
P.K. Dutta, Rohit Srivastava, and Joydeep Dutta
Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery into Stem Cells and Embryos . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Pallavi Pushp, Rajdeep Kaur, Hoon Taek Lee, and Mukesh Kumar Gupta
Engineering of Polysaccharides via Nanotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Joydeep Dutta
Hydroxyapatite-Packed Chitosan-PMMA Nanocomposite:
A Promising Material for Construction of Synthetic Bone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Arundhati Bhowmick, Subhash Banerjee, Ratnesh Kumar, and
Patit Paban Kundu
Biodegradable Polymers for Potential Delivery Systems
for Therapeutics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Sanjeev K. Pandey, Chandana Haldar, Dinesh K. Patel, and Pralay Maiti
Phytomedicine-Loaded Polymeric Nanomedicines: Potential Cancer
Therapeutics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
S. Maya, M. Sabitha, Shantikumar V. Nair, and R. Jayakumar
Proteins and Carbohydrates as Polymeric Nanodrug Delivery
Systems: Formulation, Properties, and Toxicological Evaluation . . . . . . . . 241
Dhanya Narayanan, J. Gopikrishna, Shantikumar V. Nair, and
Deepthy Menon
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