Main description:

The field of nanomedicine has risen quickly due to the increasing number of designer-made nanomaterials. These nanomaterials have the potential to manage diseases and change the way medicine is currently studied. However, the increased practice of using nanomaterials has shed light on how many concepts of nanomedicine and nanotoxicity have been overlooked. Nanotoxicology: Toxicity Evaluation of Nanomedicine Applications addresses the existing gaps between nanomedicine and nanotoxicity. This book also brings together up-to-date knowledge on advances toward safe-by-design nanomaterials and existing toxicity challenges.

This book delivers a comprehensive coverage in the field with fundamental understanding, serving as a platform to convey essential concepts of nanotoxicology and how these concepts can be employed to develop advanced nanomaterials for a range of biomedical applications. This book is an effort to answer some of the thoughtful nanotoxicological complications and their auspicious probable solutions with new approaches and careful toxicity assessment.

Key Features:

Reveals novel nanoscale approaches, toxicity assessment, and biomedical applications

Includes importance of nanotoxicity concepts in developing smart nanomaterials

Highlights unique contributions and "A to Z" aspects on the state-of-the-art from global leaders

Offers a complete package to learn fundamentals with recommendations on nanomaterials toxicity and safe-by-design nanomedicines

Nanotoxicology: Toxicity Evaluation of Nanomedicine Applications illuminates the high potential of many innovative nanomaterials, ultimately demonstrating them to be promising substitutes for available therapies that can be effectively used in fighting a myriad of biomedical complications. Further, this book reports legal, ethical, safety, and regulatory issues associated with nanomaterials, which have often been neglected, if not overlooked in literature and limiting clinical translation at nanoscale level. It will equip readers with cutting-edge knowledge of promising developments in nanomedicine and nanotoxicology, along with potential future prospects.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Nanomaterials: Types of Nanomaterials and Their

Fundamental Physicochemical Properties....................................... 1

A. Shubha, S. R. Manohara, and S. S. Subhranshu

Chapter 2 Innovations in Nanotechnology for Biomedical Sensing,

Imaging, Drug Delivery, and Therapy........................................... 21

Anine Crous and Heidi Abrahamse

Chapter 3 Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery.................................................. 43

Shailja Jain, Srividya Gorantla, and Gautam Singhvi

Chapter 4 PLGA-Based Nanoparticulate Systems: New Trends in

Nanomedicine................................................................................ 73

Devendra Jain, Abhijeet Singh, Bjorn John Stephen,

Suman Sanadhya, Hemant Kumar Daima,

Harishkumar Madhyastha, and Radha Madhyastha

Chapter 5 Employing New Targeted Nanoencapsulation for

Alzheimer's Disease Treatment: A Change for the Better?........... 97

Arti Devi and Zaved Ahmed Khan

Chapter 6 Nanomaterials-Assisted Elicitation of

Pharmaceutically Important Secondary Metabolites from

In Vitro Plant Cell Cultures...........................................................117

Sekhar Tiwari, Sachin Kumar Verma, Abhishek Bhargava,

Anusha Ebenezer Alpheus, Rasanpreet Kaur,

Rajesh Sharma, and Neeraj Khare

Chapter 7 Impact of Nanomaterials on Health and Environment................ 133

Faisal Ali, Kanwal Akhtar, Ahmed Nawaz, M. Munir Sajid,

Naveed Akhtar Shad, Muhammad Abdul Qayyum, and Yasir Javed

Chapter 8 Consequences of Nanomaterials on Human

Health and Ecosystem.................................................................. 157

Priyanka Kumari, Richa Seth, and Abha Meena

Chapter 9 Conceptual Understanding of the Mechanisms of

Nanotoxicity and Safety of Nanomedicines................................. 201

Rotimi Damilare, Maimako Rotdelmwa, Ashonibare

Victory, Ogunnupebi Temitope, and Adeyemi Oluyomi Stephen

Chapter 10 Insights into the Mechanisms of Nanotoxicity and

Evaluation of Nanomaterials........................................................ 225

Vinod Kumar Yata

Chapter 11 Sensors to Monitor and Evaluate the Toxicity of

Nanomedicine Applications......................................................... 245

Bambang Kuswandi

Chapter 12 Systems Approaches for Toxicological

Assessment of Nanomaterials...................................................... 277

Hasmik Yepiskoposyan, Marja Talikka,

Vincenzo Belcastro, Nikolai V. Ivanov, Diego Marescotti,

Manuel C. Peitsch, and Julia Hoeng

Chapter 13 Measurement of Oxygen Consumption Rate Based on

Fluorescence Intensity and Lifetime as a Strategy to Assess

Nanotoxicity................................................................................. 303

T. Sushma, Hemant Kumar Daima, D. R. Ramesh Babu,

S. Amutha, and Sangly P. Srinivas

Chapter 14 Current Knowledge on Toxicity of Nanomaterials:

Toxicity Assessment and Impact.................................................. 339

Bhaskar Das, Mayuri Chabukdhara, Sanjukta Patra, and

Manashjit Gogoi

Chapter 15 The Role of Nanotechnology in the Management of

Water Toxicity.............................................................................. 377

Vinod Kumar Yata

Chapter 16 Challenges in the Assessment of Nanotoxicity,

Recommendations, and Safe-by-Design Nanomedicines to

Counter Toxicological Problems.................................................. 393

G. V. S. Subbaroy Sarma, Manoj Kumar Enamala,

Maria P. Nikolova, Murthy Chavali, and

Sudhakar Reddy Pamanji

Chapter 17 Current Guidelines and Regulatory Challenges, Insight into

the Legal, Societal, and Ethical Issues of Nanomaterials............ 445

Harjeet Nath, S. S. Subhranshu, and S. R. Manohara