TY - BOOK ID - 5448138 TI - Polymer drugs in the clinical stage : advantages and prospects PY - 2003 VL - v. 519 SN - 00652598 SN - 030647932X 0306474719 PB - New York, New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Drug delivery systems -- Congresses. KW - Electronic books. -- local. KW - Pharmacology, Experimental -- Congresses. KW - Pharmacology, Experimental KW - Drug delivery systems KW - Polymers KW - Drug Carriers KW - Congresses KW - Pharmaceutical Preparations KW - Drugs, Investigational KW - Drug Delivery Systems KW - Publication Formats KW - Biomedical and Dental Materials KW - Chemicals and Drugs KW - Macromolecular Substances KW - Drug Therapy KW - Dosage Forms KW - Therapeutics KW - Specialty Uses of Chemicals KW - Manufactured Materials KW - Publication Characteristics KW - Technology, Industry, and Agriculture KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Chemical Actions and Uses KW - Technology, Industry, Agriculture KW - Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Medicine. KW - Pharmacy. KW - Pharmacology. KW - Polymers. KW - Oncology. KW - Medical biochemistry. KW - Biomedicine. KW - Pharmacology/Toxicology. KW - Polymer Sciences. KW - Medical Biochemistry. KW - Toxicology. KW - Biochemistry. KW - Oncology . KW - Polymers . KW - Chemistry KW - Medicine KW - Drugs KW - Materia medica KW - Pharmacology KW - Tumors KW - Medical biochemistry KW - Pathobiochemistry KW - Pathological biochemistry KW - Biochemistry KW - Pathology KW - Polymere KW - Polymeride KW - Polymers and polymerization KW - Macromolecules KW - Drug effects KW - Medical pharmacology KW - Medical sciences KW - Chemicals KW - Chemotherapy KW - Pharmacy KW - Physiological effect KW - Delivery systems, Drug KW - Drug administration technology KW - Drug delivery technology KW - Pharmaceutical technology KW - Experimental pharmacology KW - Therapeutics, Experimental KW - Delivery systems UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5448138 AB - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Polymer Therapeutics - Recent Progress in Clinics and Future Prospects, held July 13-14, 2001, in Nara, Japan. The technology of polymer science has developed considerably during the past half-century, and this volume describes some of the aspects of this technology that will have a great impact in the future. Among these advances, for example, are gene delivery to specific disease sites and carrier polymers that respond to a stimulus or particular environment. Cancer targeted drug delivery is another focused area of this volume because of the important nature of EPR-effect of polymer drugs in tumor. Included are discussions of as many examples as possible of polymer drugs that have achieved, or are close to clinical use. The concept of "Polymer drugs" here is limited to primarily injectable and water-soluble agents, although also covered are some drugs in micellar form or liposomes. This book is intended for students and researchers in the field of pharmacology who have particular interests in drug delivery, targeting, and formulation, as well as for clinicians such as oncologists who are interested in the field. People who work at regulatory agencies should also be aware such that drugs with great potential are being developed and will be beneficial to many patients, as well as to health insurance agencies because of improved cost effectiveness. ER -