Nanocarriers for Nucleic Acids and Proteins

Chapter 1: Introduction to Nanocarriers for Nucleic Acids and Proteins.

Juan C. Cruz, Yashwant V Pathak and Luis H. Reyes

Chapter 2: Design Principles of Nanocarriers: Size, Shape, and

Surface Properties, Stimuli-Responsive Systems.

Juan C. Cruz, Luis H. Reyes

Chapter 3: Lipid-Based Nano Carriers for Nucleic Acids and Proteins: Liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, nanostructured lipid carriers

Biswajit Basu, Ayon Dutta, Dipanjana Ash, Bhupendra Prajapati*, Swarupananda Mukherjee

Chapter 4: Polymer-based nanocarriers: dendrimers, polymeric micelles, hydrogels

Juan C. Cruz and Luis H. Reyes

Chapter 5: Inorganic nano carriers: gold nanoparticles, iron nanoparticles, silica nanoparticles, quantum dots

Juan C. Cruz,and Luis H. Reyes

Chapter 6: Carbon-based nano carriers: Carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide, fullerenes, and Carbon dots

Cristian F. Rodr­guez, Paula Guzm¡n-Sastoque, Coryna Rodriguez-Bazurto, Juan C. Rojas-Hern¡ndez, Luis H. Reyes, Juan C. Cruz

Chapter 7 : Virus Inspired Nano Carriers

Ankita Alice Singh, Seema Kohli

Chapter 8: Nucleic acid nano carriers DNA nanostructures, RNA nanostructures, hybrid nucleic acid systems

Komal Parmar, and Jayvadan Patel

Chapter 9 : Protein-based nano carriers: protein cages, self-assembling peptides, fusion proteins,

Nishant B. Chopade, Prashant K. Deshmukh,and Mahesh P. More

Chapter 10 : Nanocarrier Functionalization Strategies: Targeting Ligands, Imaging Agents, stimuli-responsive Elements

Sampada Satish Shinde, Bhavna Sonule, Lalit Kumar

Chapter 11: Delivery of nucleic acids using nano carriers:

siRNA and miRNA delivery, mRNA and DNA delivery, CRISPR-Cas systems

Paula Guzm¡nâ"Sastoque,Mar­a Camila Monsalve, Cristian F. Rodr­guez, Stiven Castellanos,Juan C. Cruz, and Luis H. Reyes

Chapter 12: Delivery of proteins using nanocarriers: enzymes, antibodies and growth factors

Jennifer Suurbaar,

Frederick Sarfo-Antwi Seth Kwabena Amponsah,

Chapter 13 : Nanocarrier in gene therapy

Sinjini Sarkar, Swarupananda Mukherjee, Shilpa Chatterjee, Biswajit Basu, Dipanjan Karati, Bhupendra Prajapati

Chapter 14: Nanocarriers in Cancer Immunotherapy: Personalized Cancer Vaccines, Immune Checkpoint Modulation,

Adoptive T-Cell Therapy

Vineet Mahajan and Yashwant Pathak

Chapter 15: Future perspectives and challenges: clinical translation and regulatory aspects, scale-up and

manufacturing, ethical considerations

Aparoop Das, Kalyani Pathak Riya Saikia, Manash Pratim Pathak,Urvashee Gogoi, Dibyajyoti Das, Jon Jyoti Sahariah, Saptasikha Gogoi and Sukanya Sonowa

Chapter 16: Regulatory Toxicology of Biologics: Safeguarding Health in Biotherapeutic Development

Satish Rojekar, Nishant Talati, Shahin Vhora,

Nidhi Kotadiya, Mitul Talala, Ruby Chrisitan, Vikas Jain, Tosha Pandya, Disha Suthar, and Kinjal Parikh