Liposomes: Methods and Protocols (Paperback)

Preface... Table of Contents... Contributing Authors... 1. Liposomes Came First: The Early History of Liposomology Volkmar Weissig 2. Thin Film Hydration followed by Extrusion Method for Liposome Preparation Hongwei Zhang 3. Preparation of DRV Liposomes Sophia G. Antimisiaris 4. Method of Simultaneous Analysis of Liposome Components by HPTLC/FID Sophia Hatziantoniou and Costas Demetzos 5. Freeze-Fracture Electron Microscopy on Domains in Lipid Mono- and Bilayer on Nano-Resolution Scale Brigitte Papahadjopoulos-Sternberg 6. Liposome Formulations of Hydrophobic Drugs Reto A. Schwendener and Herbert Schott 7. A "Dock and Lock" Approach to Preparation of Targeted Liposomes Marina V. Backer and Joseph M. Backer 8. Coupling of Ligands to the Liposome Surface by Click Chemistry Maria Vittoria Spanedda, Marcella De Giorgi, Fatouma Said Hassane, Francis Schuber, Line Bourel-Bonnet, and Benoit Frisch 9. Elastic Liposomes for Topical and Transdermal Drug Delivery heather a.="" e.="" benson10. Determination of the Sub-Cellular Distribution of Liposomes using Confocal Microscopy Melani A. Solomon 11. Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope Imaging of Vesicle Systems Yvonne Perrie, Habib Ali, Daniel J. Kirby, Afzal U. R. Mohammed, Sarah E. McNeil, and Anil Vangala 12. Liposome Biodistribution via Europium Complexes Nathalie Mignet and Daniel Scherman 13. Techniques for Loading Technetium-99m and Rhenium-186/188 Radionuclides into Preformed Liposomes for Diagnostic Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy< Beth Goins, Ande Bao, and William T. Phillips 14. Gadolinium-Loaded Polychelating Polymer-Containing Tumor-Targeted Liposomes Suna Erdogan and Vladimir P. Torchilin 15. Serum-Stable, Long-Circulating, pH-Sensitive PEGylated Liposomes Nicolas Bertrand, Pierre Simard, and Jean-Christophe Leroux 16. Long-Circulating, pH-Sensitive Liposomes Denitsa Momekova, Stanislav Rangelov, and Nikolay Lambov 17. Anionic pH-Sensitive Lipoplexes Nathalie Mignet and Daniel Scherman 18. Fluorometric Analysis of Individual Cationic Lipid-DNA Complexes Edwin Pozharski 19. Preparation and Physical Characterization of DNA Binding Cationic Liposomes Vaibhav Saxena 20. Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Based Analysis of Lipoplexes Edwin Pozharski 21. Targeted Magnetic Liposomes Loaded with Doxorubicin Pallab Pradhan, Rinti Banerjee, Dhirendra Bahadur, Christian Koch, Olga Mykhaylyk, and Christian Plank 22. Stable Discoidal Bicelles - A Platform of Lipid Nanocarriers for Cellular Delivery Ying Liu, Yan Xia, Armin Tahmasbi Rad, Wafa Aresh and Mu-Ping Nieh