Erythrocyte engineering for drug delivery and targeting  [electronic resource] / 
[edited by] Mauro Magnani. 
 - Georgetown, Tex. :  Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com ;  c2002. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - Biotechnology intelligence unit ;  6 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Red blood cell loading : a selection of procedures / Luigia Rossi, Sonja Serafini and Mauro Magnani -- Towards activated release of payloads from carrier erythrocytes / A.M. Rollan and A.P. McHale -- Targeting drug loaded red blood cells / Mauro Magnani, Luigia Rossi and Giorgio Brandi -- Streptavidin-mediated coupling of therapeutic proteins to carrier erythrocytes / Vladimir R. Muzykantov and Juan-Carlos Murciano -- Vaccination strategy using red blood cells as antigen delivery system / Laura Chiarantini -- Engineered nanoerythrocytes as a novel drug delivery system / Sanjay Jain and N.K. Jain -- Red blood cells as carriers of antiviral agents / A. Fraternale, A. Casabianca and M. Magnani -- Erythrocytes as carriers of anthracycline antibiotics in vitro and in vivo / Victor M. Vitvitsky -- Drug-loaded red blood cells for the control of the inflammatory response : selective targeting of nuclear factor-kB (NF-kB) / R. Crinelli, A. Antonelli, M. Bianchi, L. Gentilini and M. Magnani -- Design and synthesis of new pro-drugs to be used with carrier red blood cells / S. Scarfì, G. Damonte and U. Benatti -- Engineered red blood cells as circulating bioreactors / P. Ninfali and E. Biagiotti. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781587060618 9780585416984 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Erythrocytes--Biotechnology.<br/>Drug carriers (Pharmacy)<br/>Bioreactors.<br/>Drug targeting.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TP248.65.B56  / E79 2002