Volume 509: Nanomedicine, 1st Edition

Key Features

• Comprehensively covers infectious diseases, immunotherapy, gene medicine, diagnostics, and toxicology of nanomedicine
• International board of authors
• Split into sections that cover subjects such as Nanomedicines in Immunotherapy, Nanomedicine Toxicity, and Diagnostic Nanomedicine

Description

This volume in the Methods in Enzymology series comprehensively covers Infectious Diseases, Immunotheraphy, Gene Medicine, Diagnostics and Toxicology of Nanomedicine. With an international board of authors, this volume is split into sections that cover subjects such as Nanomedicines in Immunotherapy, Nanomedicine toxicity, and Diagnostic Nanomedicine.

Readership

Biochemists, biophysicists, molecular biologists, analytical chemists, and physiologists

Nanomedicine, 1st Edition

Antiviral Nanomedicines

1. Enhanced antiviral activity of acyclovir loaded into nanoparticles

Roberta Cavalli, Manuela Donalisio, Andrea Civra, Elisabetta Ranucci, Paolo Ferruti, and David Lembo

2. Gold manno-Glyconanoparticles for Intervening in HIV gp120 Carbohydrate-Mediated Processes

Paolo Di Gianvincenzo, Fabrizio Chiodo, Marco Marradi, and Soledad Penadés

3. Nanoparticle mediated targeted delivery of antiretrovirals to the brain

Supriya D. Mahajan_, Wing-Cheung Law , Ravikumar Aalinkeel, Jessica Reynolds, Bindukumar B Nair, Ken-Tye Yong, Indrajit Roy, Paras N. Prasad and Stanley A. Schwartz^.

Antibacterial Nanomedicines

4. Antibacterial activity of doxycycline-loaded nanoparticles

Ranjita Misra and Sanjeeb K Sahoo

5. Antimicrobial properties of electrically formed elastomeric polyurethane-copper oxide nanocomposites for medical and dental applications

Z.Ahmad, M.A.Vargas-Reus, R. Bakhshi, F. Ryan, G.G. Ren, F. Oktar, and R.P. Allaker

Nanomedicines in Immunotherapy

6. Gastrointestinal delivery of anti-inflammatory nanoparticles

Hamed Laroui, Shanthi V Sitaraman, and Didier Merlin

7. Chitosan-based nanoparticles as a Hepatitis B antigen delivery system

Filipa Lebre , Dulce Bento , Sandra Jesus , and Olga Borges

8. Targeting nanoparticles to dendritic cells for immunotherapy

Luis J. Cruz, Paul J. Tacken,Felix Rueda, Joan Carles Domingo, Fernando Albericio, and Carl G. Figdor

Diagnostic Nanomedicine

9. Design and fabrication of N-Alkyl-polyethylenimine stabilized iron oxide nanoclusters for gene delivery

Gang Liu, Zhiyong Wang, Seulki Lee, Hua Ai, Xiaoyuan Chen

10. Protein-Carbon Nanotube Sensors: Single Platform Integrated Micro Clinical Lab for Monitoring Blood Analytes

Sowmya Viswanathan^, Pingzuo Li^, Wonbong Choi, Slawomir Filipek^, T. A. Balasubramaniam and V. Renugopalakrishnan

Nanomedicine Toxicity

11. Investigating the toxic effects of iron oxide nanoparticles

Stefaan J. Soenen, Marcel De Cuyper, Stefaan C. De Smedt and Kevin Braeckmans

12. Cytotoxicity of Gold Nanoparticles

Yu Pan, Matthias Bartneck, and Willi Jahnen-Dechent

Antifibrotic Nanomedicine

13. Design of target-seeking antifibrotic compounds

Tero A.H. Järvinen, and Erkki Ruoslahti

Genetic Nanomedicine

14. Cell-penetrating peptide-based systems for nucleic acid delivery: A biological and biophysical approach

Sara Trabulo, Ana L. Cardoso^, Ana M.S. Cardoso^,, Nejat Düzgünes, Amália S. Jurado and Maria C. Pedroso de Lima

15. Multifunctional envelope-type nano-device (MEND) for organelle targeting via a step-wise membrane fusion process

Yuma Yamada^, Hidetaka Akita, Hideyoshi Harashima

16. Lipopolyplexes as nanomedicines for therapeutic gene delivery

Leire García, Koldo Urbiola, Nejat Düzgünes and Conchita Tros de Ilarduya

17. Interfering nanoparticles (iNOPs) for silencing microRNAs

Huricha Baigude and Tariq M. Rana

18. Genetic Nanomedicine: Gene Delivery by Targeted Lipoplexes

Nejat Düzgünes and Conchita Tros de Ilarduya