title: Pharmaceutical and biomedical applications of surface engineered carbon nanotubes.
abstract: Surface engineered carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are attracting recent attention of scientists owing to their vivid biomedical and pharmaceutical applications. The focus of this review is to highlight the important role of surface engineered CNTs in the highly challenging but rewarding area of nanotechnology. The major strength of this review lies in highlighting the exciting applications of CNTs to boost the research efforts, which unfortunately are otherwise scattered in the literature making the reading non-coherent and non-homogeneous.
authors.affiliation: Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology Research Laboratory, ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga, 142 001 Punjab, India; Pharmaceutics Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar 470 003, India.
authors.forename: Neelesh Kumar
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Mehra
authors.affiliation: Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology Research Laboratory, ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga, 142 001 Punjab, India; Pharmaceutics Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar 470 003, India.
authors.forename: Keerti
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.affiliation: Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology Research Laboratory, ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga, 142 001 Punjab, India; Pharmaceutics Research Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar 470 003, India. Electronic address: neelesh81mph@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Narendra Kumar
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Jain
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D004337:Drug Carriers; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D006801:Humans; D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000379:methods*; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000633:toxicity; D010539:Permeability; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D018570:Risk Assessment; D013499:Surface Properties; D013678:Technology, Pharmaceutical / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004337:Drug Carriers; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations