ISBN: 9788176221078    Publisher: Biotech Year of publishing: 2005     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: vii,194        Language: English

During the past two decades, the medical biotechnology industry has successfully introduced more than 160 drugs and vaccines to the market place. A large production of these drugs are protein-based therapeutics. This is the era of protein based drugs writers have chosen this subject, which is quite useful not only for academic but also for the related industry. Keeping above in mind, the book discusses not only about the technical matters like proteins, importance of proteins, some important protein based drugs and their production process, synthetic peptides, quality control and characterization, delivery systems and formulation development but also commercialization aspects like--World scenario, Regulatory aspects, Therapeutic innovation, Intellectual property rights and Guide to new entrepreneurs. Contents Chapter 1: Biotechnology and Proteins; Chapter 2: Body Proteins and Relative Protein Drugs; Chapter 3: Some Important Protein Based Drugs, Interferon (IFNs), Colony stimulating factors, Insulin, Tumor necrosis factor (TNF), Interleukins, Erythropoitin (EPO), Blood factors - factor VIII and factor IX, Growth factor, Human grown hormone (HGH, somatotropin), Tissue type plasminogen activator (tPA), Streptokinase, Thyroid-stimulating hormone (Thyrotropin), Prolactin, Calcitonin, Insulin like growth factor 1; Chapter 4: Production Process: Steps Involved, Development of clones, Fermentation, Purification; Chapter 5: Quality Control and Characterization; Chapter 6: Transgenic Technology: Another Methods of Production; Chapter 7: Synthetic Peptides; Chapter 8: Drug Delivery and Formulation; Chapter 9: World Scenario; Chapter 10: Regulatory Aspects; Chapter 11: Therapeutic Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights; Chapter 12: Guide to New Entrepreneurs.
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