Liposome Technology, Second Edition, is an updated, expanded new edition of a classic volume in the field. It covers all aspects of liposome technology, including liposome preparation and analysis, drug entrapment, and techniques used for in vivo and in vitro evaluation of liposomes. Leading authorities have contributed 70 chapters to create what is destined to be the standard liposome technology book for the 1990s. Many of the chapters describe methodologies practiced in authors' laboratories and provide specific examples of how these methodologies are applied in specific circumstances.

Liposome Technology, Second Edition will be an essential reference volume for academic and industrial researchers in pharmacology, pharmacy, medicine, biochemistry, and immunology.

What's new in the 2nd Edition?

The 2nd Edition covers significant developments in liposome technology that have occurred since the publication of the 1st Edition in 1982. These developments include the following:

New preparative procedures

Special approaches to accommodate the incorporation of certain drugs

New targeting techniques

Large scale production of liposomes, patents, and clinical trials

Almost completely rewritten since the 1984 first edition, reviews the explosion of new technologies developed over the past decade that have finally led to the licensing of a drug that uses liposomes as a carrier. Volume 3 is devoted to technologies yielding liposomes that can function in a "targeted" fashion, and to approaches of studying the interaction of liposomes with the biological milieu. The 22 individually authored reviews discuss such topics as lipid properties as a basis for membrane modeling and rational liposome design, the production and size control of large unilamellar liposomes by emulsification, and miniosmotic pumps for liposomal drug delivery. Volume 1 covers techniques for preparing and characterizing liposomes; Volume 2, examples of incorporating them into drugs.
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v. 1. Liposome preparation and related techniques — v. 2. Entrapment of drugs and other materials — v. 3. Interactions of liposomes with the biological milieu.