selected topics Nanomedicine

1. Artificial Cells: The Beginning of Nanomedicine
2. The Clinical Development of Hemopure
3. Glutaraldehyde Polymerized Porcine Hemoglobin
4. Evidence Regarding Some Pharmacologic Characteristics of Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers
5. EAF PEG Hemoglobins
6. Biocompatibility of a Highly Concentrated Fluid of Hemoglobin-Vesicles as a Transfusion Alternative
7. Molecular Basis of Haptoglobin and Hemoglobin Complex Formation and Protection against Oxidative Stress and Damage
8. Polynitroxylated Hemoglobin as a Multifunctional Therapeutic for Critical Care and Transfusion Medicine
9. Surface-Mediated Drug Delivery
10. Use of Tunable Pores for Accurate Characterization of Micro- and Nanoparticle Systems in Nanomedicine
11. Microfluidic Probes to Process Surfaces, Cells, and Tissues
12. Subcompartmentalized Systems Towards Therapeutic Cell Mimics
13. Soft Magnetic Nanomaterials Towards Nanomedicine: Magnetism Principles, Preparation, Characterization and Potential
14. GoldMag Composite Particles and Their Applications in Nanomedicine
15. Nanoparticles for Imaging and Therapy
16. Noscapines: Novel Carrier Systems to Target Tumor Cells
17. High-Throughput Methods for Miniaturization of Implantable Artificial Cells
18. Amphiphilic Core–Shell Nanoparticles Containing Hairy Polyethyleneimine Shells as Effective Nanocarriers for Gene and siRNA Delivery
19. Nano-Chaperones: Nanoparticles Acting as Artificial Chaperones
20. Bio-Functional Polymer Vesicles for Applications in Nanomedicine
21. Carbon Nanotubes in Cancer and Stem Cell Therapeutics
22. Chitosan-Based Nanocarriers for Efficient and Targeted siRNA Delivery
23. Application of Polyethylenimine-Based Nanoparticles for RNA Therapeutics
24. Nanosilver System Technology for Applications in Nanomedicine

Nanomedicine consists of the use of nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology in medicine. There have been extensive developments in the area of nanomedicine. The scope of this book is first to discuss the origin of nanomedicine. Following this, instead of a general overview of the whole area, 24 chapters on selected topics of important areas are described in detail. Authors are selected from around the world to give a representative and international view of the activities in the area of nanomedicine.