Bookedited by Bert M?uller and Marcel Van de Voorde.
Summary: Unique in combining the expertise of practitioners from university hospitals and that of academic researchers, this timely monograph presents selected topics catering specifically to the needs and interests of natural scientists and engineers as well as physicians who are concerned with developing nanotechnology-based treatments to improve human health. To this end, the book cover the materials aspects of nanomedicine, such as the hierarchical structure of biological materials, the imaging of hard and soft tissues and, in particular, concrete examples of nanotechnology-based approaches in modern medical treatments. The whole is rounded off by a discussion of the opportunities and risks of using nanotechnology and nanomaterials in medicine, backed by case studies taken from real life.
Contents:
Part I. Introduction to nanoscience in medicine of the twenty-first century
Chapter 1. Challenges and opportunities of nanotechnology for human health
Chapter 2. Nanoscience and nanotechnology and the armory for the twenty-first centrury health care
Chapter 3. Nanomedicine activities in the United States and worldwide
Part II. Leading cause of death: cardiovascular diseases
Chapter 4. Challenges in cardiovascular treatments using nanotechnology-based approaches
Chapter 5. Smart container for targeting drug delivery
Chapter 6. Human nano-vesicles in physiology and pathology
Chapter 7. Challenges and risks of nanotechnology in medicine: an immunologist's point of view
Part III. Second most common cause of death: cancer
Chapter 8.Challenges of applying targeted nanostructures with multifunctional properties in cancer treatments
Chapter 9. Highly conformal radiotherapy using protons
Chapter 10. Self-organization on a chip: from nanoscale actin assemblies to tumor spheroids
Chapter 11. The nanomechnaical signature of tissues in health and disease
Part IV. Most common diseases: caries, musculoskeletal diseases, incontinence, allergies
Chapter 12. Revealing the nano-architecture of human hard and soft tissues by spatially resolved hard X-Ray scattering
Chapter 13. Regenerative dentistry using stem cells and nanotechnology
Chapter 14. Nanostructured polymers for medical applications
Chapter 15. Nanotechnology in the treatment of incontinence
Chapter 16. Nanomedicine in dermatiology: nanotechnology in prevention, diagnosis, and therapy
Part V. Benefiting patients
Chapter 17. Therapeutic development and the evolution of precision medicine
Chapter 18. Benefit from nanoscience and nanotechnology: benefitting patients
Index.