Selected Topics in Nanomedicine

Download or read book Selected Topics in Nanomedicine written by Thomas Ming Swi Chang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanomedicine consists of the use of nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology in medicine. There have been extensive developments in the area of nanomedicine. The scope of this book is first to discuss the origin of nanomedicine. Following this, instead of a general overview of the whole area, 24 chapters on selected topics of important areas are described in detail. Authors are selected from around the world to give a representative and international view of the activities in the area of nanomedicine. Contents:Artificial Cells: The Beginning of Nanomedicine (Thomas Ming Swi Chang)The Clinical Development of Hemopure®: A Selective Commentary (A Gerson Greenburg)Glutaraldehyde Polymerized Porcine Hemoglobin: Preparation, Safety Evaluation and Pharmacodynamics Study (Chao Chen, Hongli Zhu and Kunping Yan)Evidence Regarding Some Pharmacologic Characteristics of Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers (Enrico Bucci)EAF PEG Hemoglobins: Novel Class of Nonhypertensive Resuscitation Fluids: Simplicity and Advantages of Extension Arm Chemistry for PEGylation (Seetharama A Acharya, Amy G Tsai and Marcos Intaglietta)Biocompatibility of a Highly Concentrated Fluid of Hemoglobin-Vesicles as a Transfusion Alternative (Hiromi Sakai)Molecular Basis of Haptoglobin and Hemoglobin Complex Formation and Protection against Oxidative Stress and Damage (Yiping Jia and Abdu I Alayash)Polynitroxylated Hemoglobin as a Multifunctional Therapeutic for Critical Care and Transfusion Medicine (Li Ma and Carleton Jen Chang Hsia)Surface-Mediated Drug Delivery (Benjamin M Wohl, Betina Fejerskov, Siow-Feng Chong and Alexander N Zelikin)Use of Tunable Pores for Accurate Characterization of Micro- and Nanoparticle Systems in Nanomedicine (James Eldridge, Aaron H Colby, Geoff R Willmott, Sam Yu and Mark W Grinstaff)Microfluidic Probes to Process Surfaces, Cells, and Tissues (Mohammad A Qasaimeh, Sebastien G Ricoult and David Juncker)Subcompartmentalized Systems Towards Therapeutic Cell Mimics (Leticia Hosta-Rigau and Brigitte Städler)Soft Magnetic Nanomaterials Towards Nanomedicine: Magnetism Principles, Preparation, Characterization and Potential Applications (G W Qin, S Li, Y P Ren, F Darain and K Dimitrov)GoldMag Composite Particles and Their Applications in Nanomedicine (Mingli Peng, Xu Chao, Chao Chen and Yali Cui)Nanoparticles for Imaging and Therapy: Functionalization, Endocytosis and Characterization (Yu Zhang, Yi Li, Gürer Budak, Mihrimah Ozkan and Cengiz S Ozkan)Noscapines: Novel Carrier Systems to Target Tumor Cells (Ramesh Chandra, J Madan, Prashant Singh, Pradeep Kumar, V Tomar, Sujata K Dass and Ankush Chandra)High-Throughput Methods for Miniaturization of Implantable Artificial Cells (Maryam Mobed-Miremadi)Amphiphilic Core–Shell Nanoparticles Containing Hairy Polyethyleneimine Shells as Effective Nanocarriers for Gene and siRNA Delivery (Pei Li, Yuen Shan Siu, Kin Man Ho and Wei Li)Nano-Chaperones: Nanoparticles Acting as Artificial Chaperones (S Boridy and D Maysinger)Bio-Functional Polymer Vesicles for Applications in Nanomedicine (Hans-Peter M de Hoog, Bo Liedberg and Madhavan Nallani)Carbon Nanotubes in Cancer and Stem Cell Therapeutics (Wei Shao, Arghya Paul and Satya Prakash)Chitosan-Based Nanocarriers for Efficient and Targeted siRNA Delivery (Surendra Nimesh and Ramesh Chandra)Application of Polyethylenimine-Based Nanoparticles for RNA Therapeutics (Surendra Nimesh and Ramesh Chandra)Nanosilver System Technology for Applications in Nanomedicine (Helmut Schmid) Readership: Graduate students and researchers in nanomedicine, nanobiotechnology, nanotechnology, biotechnology and biomedical engineering. Keywords:Nanomedicine;Nanobiotechnology;Nanotechnology;Blood Substitutes;Polyhemoglobin;Oxygen Therapeutics;Antioxidant;Oxygen Radicals;Regenerative Medicine;Nanocapsules;Nanoparticles;Bioencapsulation;Drug Delivery;Magnetic;Conjugated Hemoglobin;Enzymes;Cancer Therapy;Carbon Nanotubule;Microfluidics;Blood;Transfusion;Polyethylene Glycol;Liposome;Polymersomes;Oxidative Stress;Artificial Cells