Horizons in clinical nanomedicine / edited by Varva Karagkiozaki, Stergios Logothetidis.

Nanomedicine-the application of nanotechnology to health sciences-has the potential to address many important medical problems by exploiting the advanced physicochemical characteristics of nanostructured materials and devices. It can revolutionize conventional medicine by offering cutting-edge devel...

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Other Authors: Karagkiozaki, Varva, Logothetidis, Stergios
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Pan Stanford, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction in Clinical Nanomedicine; Chapter 2: Nanomedicine Combats Atherosclerosis; Chapter 3: Nanomedicine Advancements in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment; Chapter 4: Nanomedicine and Blood Diseases; Chapter 5: Nanomedicine and Orthopaedics; Chapter 6: Nanopharmaceutics: Structural Design of Cationic Gemini Surfactant-Phospholipid-DNA Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery; Chapter 7: Nanomedicine and Embryology: Causative Embryotoxic Agents Which Can Pass the Placenta Barrier and Induce Birth Defects; Chapter 8: Nanomedicine and HIV/AIDS.
  • Chapter 9: Nanoscaffolds and Other Nano-Architectures for Tissue Engineering-Related ApplicationsChapter 10: Biocompatible 2D and 3D Polymeric Scaffolds for Medical Devices; Chapter 11: Regenerative Dentistry: Stem Cells Meet Nanotechnology; Chapter 12: Toxicity and Genotoxicity of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanomaterials: A General Introduction; Chapter 13: Analogies in the Adverse Immune Effects of Wear Particles, Environmental Particles, and Medicinal Nanoparticles.