Nanostructures for Drug Delivery

Chapter 7

Nanofibrous and nanoparticle materials as drug-delivery systems

Fatemeh Zamani^*,**

Fatemeh Jahanmard^*

Farzaneh Ghasemkhah^*

Sepideh Amjad-Iranagh^*

Roohollah Bagherzadeh^*

Mohammad Amani-Tehran^*

Masoud Latifi^**    Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran^**    Hazrat-e Masoumeh University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

Nanomedicine is a growing research area dealing with the engineering of materials at a nanometer scale for the improvement of treatment, diagnosis, and imaging of diseases. In medicine and therapeutic applications, the use of nanostructures, such as nanofibrous materials and nanoparticles as drug-delivery systems has improved the bioavailability, intestinal absorption, solubility, sustained and on-demand drug release and targeted ...