Full Description
This forward-looking book focuses on the recent advances in nanomedicine and drug delivery. It outlines the extraordinary new tools that have become available in nanomedicine and presents an integrated set of perspectives that describe where we are now and where we should be headed to put nanomedicine devices into applications as quickly as possible, while also considering the possible dangers of nanomedicine.
The book considers the full range of nanomedicinal applications that employ molecular nanotechnology inside the human body, from the perspective of a future practitioner in an era of widely available nanomedicine.
Written by some of the most innnovative minds in medicine and engineering, this unique volume will help professionals understand cutting-edge and futuristic areas of research that can have tremendous payoff in terms of improving human health. Readers will find insightful discussions of nanostructured intelligent materials and devices that are considered technically feasible and which have a high potential to produce advances in medicine in the near future.
Topics include:
Health benefits of phytochemicals and the application of colloidal delivery systems
Study of non-covalent attachment of recombinant targeting proteins to polymer-modified Adenoviral gene delivery vectors
The role of nanoparticles as adjuvants for mucosal vaccine delivery
Poly(amido-amine)s as delivery styems for biologically active substances
Antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles
Nanomedicine in the use of cancer treatment
Dendrimers, capsules based on lipid vesicles for drug delivery
Many other recent achievements
Contents
Ethosomes as Non-Invasive Loom for Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems. Colloidal Delivery Systems for Phytochemicals. Polymer-Modified Gene Delivery Vectors Retargeted with Recombinant Proteins. Study of Drug Transport Properties of Acrylic-Based Iron (III) Oxide-Filled IPN. Poly(amido-amine)s as Carriers for Intracellular Delivery of Drugs and Proteins. Nanoparticles as Adjuvant(s) for Mucosal Vaccine Delivery. Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles, Characterization and Their Antimicrobial Activity. Gold-Peptide Nanoparticles Activation of Macrophages. Combating Infectious Diseases: Nanotechnology-Based Drug Delivery. Dendrimers in Biology and Medicine. Capsules Based on Lipid Vesicles: Potentiality for Drug Delivery. A Simulation Study on the Transport of Ions Through Ion Channels. Effects of Intranasal Administration of Interferon-Alpha on Rat Behavior. Neurotransplantation of Neural and Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Correction of Posthypoxic Disorders. Spray Drying in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: An Overview. RNA-Nanotechnology in Nanomedicine.
