Book contents
- Fundamentals of Nanomedicine
- Fundamentals of Nanomedicine
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Need for New Perspectives in Medicine
- 2 Nanomedicine: Single-Cell Medicine
- 3 Targeted Drug Delivery
- 4 Drug Delivery Cell Entry Mechanisms
- 5 Nanomaterial Cores for Noninvasive Imaging
- 6 Attaching Biomolecules to Nanoparticles
- 7 Characterizing Nanoparticles
- 8 Nanomedicine Drug Dosing
- 9 Nanodelivery of Therapeutic Genes
- 10 Assessing Nanomedical Therapies at the Single-Cell Level
- 11 Nanotoxicity at the Single-Cell Level
- 12 Designing Nanodelivery Systems for In Vivo Use
- 13 Designing and Testing Nanomedical Devices
- 14 Quality Assurance and Regulatory Issues of Nanomedicine for the Pharmaceutical Industry
- References
- Index
2 - Nanomedicine: Single-Cell Medicine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2022
Book contents
- Fundamentals of Nanomedicine
- Fundamentals of Nanomedicine
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Need for New Perspectives in Medicine
- 2 Nanomedicine: Single-Cell Medicine
- 3 Targeted Drug Delivery
- 4 Drug Delivery Cell Entry Mechanisms
- 5 Nanomaterial Cores for Noninvasive Imaging
- 6 Attaching Biomolecules to Nanoparticles
- 7 Characterizing Nanoparticles
- 8 Nanomedicine Drug Dosing
- 9 Nanodelivery of Therapeutic Genes
- 10 Assessing Nanomedical Therapies at the Single-Cell Level
- 11 Nanotoxicity at the Single-Cell Level
- 12 Designing Nanodelivery Systems for In Vivo Use
- 13 Designing and Testing Nanomedical Devices
- 14 Quality Assurance and Regulatory Issues of Nanomedicine for the Pharmaceutical Industry
- References
- Index
Summary
There are a number of features of nanomedicine that make it a new, unique medical discipline. In addition to its association with nanotechnology, it changes the fundamental paradigm of disease in medicine from being at the organ level to being at the single-cell level. It is paradigm shifting in a number of ways. Befitting its nanotechnology origins, nanomedicine uses a bottom-up rather than top-down approach to medicine. Nanomedicine uses a cell-by-cell approach and uses biosensing and feedback control to safely regulate drug delivery.
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- Fundamentals of Nanomedicine , pp. 21 - 39Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022