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
1 - The Need for New Perspectives in Medicine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2022
- 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
Nanomedicine is the intersection of the field of nanotechnology with the field of medicine. In order to understand the basis for this intersection, it is first important to learn a little bit about nanotechnology in general as well as a few fundamentals of medicine and specific fields of science and engineering. In this book, I will use an approach to teachingcalled the “spiral approach.” The idea is to first introduce a concept at a very simple level and then gradually peel away the layers to go into greater depth and level of understanding, like peeling back the layers of an onion. I will introduce basic concepts in earlier chapters and then go into much more detail in later chapters.
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- Fundamentals of Nanomedicine , pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022