Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One
Potential use of Human Serum Albumin as a Drug Delivery System
(Yu Ishima, Toru Maruyama and Masaki Otagiri, Department of Biopharmaceutics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, and others)

Chapter Two
Human Serum Albumin (HSA) Drug Delivery System
(Dorota Bartusik, David Aebisher and Boguslaw Tomanek, Southern Polytechnic State University, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Marietta, Georgia, USA, and others)

Chapter Three
Recombinant Human Serum Albumin Fusion Proteins: Novel Applications and Challenges
(Daoyuan Dong, Zhijun Li, Xun Li, Zhiyu Li, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Misher College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and others)

Chapter Four
Pharmacokinetically Modified Human Serum Albumin Based Therapeutic Design and Development
(Kazuaki Taguchi, Victor Tuan Giam Chuang, Keishi Yamasaki, and Masaki Otagiri, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sojo University, Kumamoto, Japan, and others)

Chapter Five
Glycative and Oxidative Modification of Human Serum Albumin: Conformational and Functional Changes
(Makoto Anraku, Ulrich Kragh-Hansen, Toru Maruyama and Masaki Otagiri, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sojo University, Kumamoto, Japan, and others)

Chapter Six
Analysis of the Organic Solvent Effect on the Hydration and Structure of Human Serum Albumin by Infrared Spectroscopy
(Vladimir A. Sirotkin, Kazan Federal University, A.M. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry, Kazan, Russia)

Chapter Seven
CAPIDAN, a Fluorescent Reporter for Detection of Albumin Drug-Binding Site Changes
(G. E. Dobretsov, T. I. Syrejschikova, N. V. Smolina, and M. G. Uzbekov, Research Institute for Physical Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia, and others)
Free Download Available

Index