Main description:

This volume explores some of the most exciting recent advances in basic research on nanoparticles in translational science and medicine and how this knowledge is leading to advances in the various fields.

Contents:

Liposomes and other vesicular systems: structural characteristics, methods of preparation and use in nanomedicine
Elisa Elizondo, Evelina Moreno, Ingrid Cabrera, Alba Cordoba, Santi Sala, Jaume Veciana and Nora Ventosa

Luminescent quantum dots, making invisibles visible in bioimaging
Mitsuru Ishikawa and Vasudevanpillai Biju

Fabrication of dendrimers towards biological application
Hsieh-Chih Tsai and Toyoko Imae

Carbohydrate-based Nanoparticles for Potential Applications in Medicine
Marco Marradi, Isabel Garcia and Soledad Penades

Carbon nanotubes: Engineering biomedical applications
Diego A. Gomez-Gualdron, Juan C. Burgos, Jiamei Yu, and Perla B. Balbuena

Engineered biological entities for drug delivery and gene therapy: Protein Nanoparticles
Joan Domingo-Espin, Ugutz Unzueta, Paolo Saccardo, Escarlata Rodriguez-Carmona, Jose Luis Corchero, Esther Vazquez, and Neus Ferrer-Miralles

Polymer nanoparticles
Xiao-Yun Lu, Dao-Cheng Wu, Zheng-Jun Li, Guo-Qiang Chen

Nanobiotechnology and Personalized Medicine
K. K. Jain

Tissue Engineering Using Magnetite Nanoparticles
Akira Ito and Masamichi Kamihira

Peptide nanoparticles for oligonucleotide delivery
Taavi Lehto, Kariem Ezzat and UElo Langel

Nanoparticles in molecular diagnostics
Pedro V. Baptista1, Goncalo Doria1, Pedro Quaresma1, Miguel Cavadas, Cristina S. Neves, Ines Gomes, Peter Eaton, Eulalia Pereira, Ricardo Franco

Nanoparticles in Cancer Chemotherapy
Deboshri Banerjee and Shiladitya Sengupta

Nanoparticles in gene therapy: principles, prospects and challenges
Chunxi Liu, Na Zhang

Cell Delivery of Therapeutic Nanoparticles

JoEllyn McMillan, Elena Batrakova, and Howard E. Gendelman