1st Edition

Nanomedicine in Health and Disease

Edited By Ross Hunter, Victor R. Preedy Copyright 2012
452 Pages 22 Color & 84 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

452 Pages 22 Color & 84 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

452 Pages
by CRC Press

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... Read more

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

Biography

Ross J. Hunter, Victor R. Preedy