A role for prebiotics in controlled drug delivery

Nanocarrier Technologies: Frontiers of Nanotherapy

Volumn 9781402050411, Issue , 2006, Pages 87-94

  Awati, Ajay ^a   Moughan, Paul J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Encapsulation; Prebiotics

Indexed keywords

DRUG DELIVERY; ENCAPSULATION; TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY;

INTESTINAL HEALTHS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; NUTRICEUTICALS; NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS; PREBIOTICS; SITE-SPECIFIC; SITE-SPECIFIC DRUG DELIVERIES; STRATEGIC BENEFITS;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

EID: 34247506848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5041-1_6     Document Type: Chapter

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