Includes bibliographical references and index.

Red blood cell loading : a selection of procedures / Luigia Rossi, Sonja Serafini and Mauro Magnani -- Towards activated release of payloads from carrier erythrocytes / A.M. Rollan and A.P. McHale -- Targeting drug loaded red blood cells / Mauro Magnani, Luigia Rossi and Giorgio Brandi -- Streptavidin-mediated coupling of therapeutic proteins to carrier erythrocytes / Vladimir R. Muzykantov and Juan-Carlos Murciano -- Vaccination strategy using red blood cells as antigen delivery system / Laura Chiarantini -- Engineered nanoerythrocytes as a novel drug delivery system / Sanjay Jain and N.K. Jain -- Red blood cells as carriers of antiviral agents / A. Fraternale, A. Casabianca and M. Magnani -- Erythrocytes as carriers of anthracycline antibiotics in vitro and in vivo / Victor M. Vitvitsky -- Drug-loaded red blood cells for the control of the inflammatory response : selective targeting of nuclear factor-kB (NF-kB) / R. Crinelli, A. Antonelli, M. Bianchi, L. Gentilini and M. Magnani -- Design and synthesis of new pro-drugs to be used with carrier red blood cells / S. Scarfì, G. Damonte and U. Benatti -- Engineered red blood cells as circulating bioreactors / P. Ninfali and E. Biagiotti.