Nanomedicine in Health and Disease

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-57808-725-9
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 842 g

The nanosciences are a rapidly expanding field of research with a wide applicability to all areas of health and disease prevention. This book, covers the regulation of nanomedicine, nanotubes, topical applications of nanoparticles, nanocrystals, antioxidant nanoparticles, lipid nanocapsules, nanotheragnostic colloids, nanotechnology in the control of infectious disease, virus-based nanoparticles and the safety of nanoparticles. It also covers nanomedicine in relation to pulmonary drug delivery, the control of infectious disease, radiation protection, arthritis, cancer nanomedicine, blood diseases, neurodegenerative disorders, and tissue and implant engineering.

Zielgruppe

research scientists, medical doctors, healthcare professionals, pathologists, biologists, biochemists, chemists and physicists, general practitioners as well as those interested in disease and nanosciences in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunter, Ross J.

Preedy, Victor R.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Biotechnologie: Mikrotechnologie, Nanobiotechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction and Technology

Nanomedicine: An Introduction, Lajos P. Balogh

The Regulation of Nanomedicine, Joel D’Silva and Diana Bowman

Nanotubes and their Application to Nanomedicine, Gianni Ciofani

Nanoparticles for Topical Application, Kerriann R. Greenhalgh

Nanocrystal Formulations for Improved Delivery of Poorly Soluble Drugs,Jan Möschwitzer and Rainer H. Müller

Antioxidant Nanoparticles, Beverly A. Rzigalinski, Kathleen Meehan, Mark D. Whiting, Candace E. Dillon, Kevin Hockey and Michael Brewer

Lipid Nanocapsules in Nanomedicine, Marie Morille, Patrick Saulnier, Jean-Pierre Benoit and Catherine Passirani

Nanotheragnostic Colloids in Disease, José L. Arias

Nanotechnology in Controlling Infectious Disease, Rehab Amin

Virus-based Nanoparticles as Tools for Biomedicine, Stefan Franzen, Steven A. Lommel and Bruce Oberhardt

Safety of Nanoparticles in Medicine, Maria Dusinska, Lise Marie Fjellsbø, Zuzana Magdolenova, Solveig Ravnum, Alessandra Rinna, and Elise Rundén-Pran

Applications to Health

Pulmonary Drug Delivery with Nanoparticles, Moritz Beck-Broichsitter, Thomas Schmehl, Werner Seeger, Tobias Gessler

Carbon Nanotubes in Infectious Diseases, Yitzhak Rosen, Brandon Mattix, Apparao Rao, Frank Alexis

Radiation Protection with Nanoparticles, Cheryl H. Baker

Nanoparticle Therapy in Arthritis, José L. Arias

Phospholipid-based Nanomicelles in Cancer Nanomedicine, Hayat Onyuksel and Amrita Banerjee

Tumor-Specific Liposomal Nanomedicines, Antitumor Antibody-modified Doxorubicin-loaded Liposomes, Tamer Elbayoumi and Vladimir Torchilin

Nanomedicine in Blood Diseases, Denis B. Buxton

Nanomedicine and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Ari Nowacek, Gang Zhang, JoEllyn McMillan, Tomomi Kiyota, Elena Batrakova, and Howard E. Gendelman

Nanotechnological Applications in Tissue and Implant Engineering, Viswanathan S. Saji and Han-Cheol Choe