Kurzbeschreibung
Band 6 der Reihe "Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences" stellt innovative Anwendungen der Nanotechnologie in der Krebsforschung vor. Verschiedene strategische Ansätze zur Eliminierung von Tumorzellen ohne Beschädigung des umgebenden gesunden Gewebes, unter anderem Magnetfeldverfahren, optische, Mikrowellen- und Neutronenabsorptionsmethoden, Nanokapseln für aktive Wirkstoffe und pharmazeutisch wirksame Nanoteilchen werden erläutert. Ausführlich besprochen wird die Frage der Überwindung biologischer Barrieren durch Nanopartikel.
Synopsis
The sixth in the 10-volume series describes a number of therapeutic approaches in cancer treatment using a variety of nano-materials. Contributors from technical, pharmaceutical, biological, and medical fields discuss such topics as conventional chemotherapeutic drug nano-particles for cancer treatment, nano-vehicles and high-molecular-weight deliv
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The Series
Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences (NtLS) is the first comprehensive source covering the convergence of materials and life sciences on the nanoscale, a wide field of research which brings together the main technology drive of the 21st century and existing, multibillion dollar markets.
Written by international experts describing the various facets of nanofabrication, the ten volumes of NtLS provide the underlying nanotechnologies for the design, creation and characterization of medical, biological and cybernetic applications. Each volume addresses in detail one particular facet of the field.
Tailor-made nanomaterials find widespread new opportunities in diagnostic and monitoring microdevices, microsurgery tools and instruments, tissue engineering, drug delivery or artificial organs, and many more. Making information available from all kinds of specialized sources throughout the disciplines involved, NtLS is essential reading for all scientists working in this field from medicine and biology through chemistry, materials science and physics to engineering.
This Volume
Volume 6 focuses on the therapy aspects of the fight against cancer. Different therapeutic strategies and technologies are surveyed and compared in which nanoparticles and nanomaterials play different roles such as the active anticancer agent, its delivery system or container, or as active material for destructive energy absorption in the cancer tissue. Controlled release and highly targeted delivery are focal topics throughout the book.
Diagnostic and diagnostic-therapeutic aspects are covered in volume 7.
Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences (NtLS) is the first comprehensive source covering the convergence of materials and life sciences on the nanoscale, a wide field of research which brings together the main technology drive of the 21st century and existing, multibillion dollar markets.
Written by international experts describing the various facets of nanofabrication, the ten volumes of NtLS provide the underlying nanotechnologies for the design, creation and characterization of medical, biological and cybernetic applications. Each volume addresses in detail one particular facet of the field.
Tailor-made nanomaterials find widespread new opportunities in diagnostic and monitoring microdevices, microsurgery tools and instruments, tissue engineering, drug delivery or artificial organs, and many more. Making information available from all kinds of specialized sources throughout the disciplines involved, NtLS is essential reading for all scientists working in this field from medicine and biology through chemistry, materials science and physics to engineering.
This Volume
Volume 6 focuses on the therapy aspects of the fight against cancer. Different therapeutic strategies and technologies are surveyed and compared in which nanoparticles and nanomaterials play different roles such as the active anticancer agent, its delivery system or container, or as active material for destructive energy absorption in the cancer tissue. Controlled release and highly targeted delivery are focal topics throughout the book.
Diagnostic and diagnostic-therapeutic aspects are covered in volume 7.
Über den Autor
Challa Kumar is currently the Group Leader of Nanofabrication at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Baton Rouge, USA. His research interests are in developing novel synthetic methods for functional nanomaterials and innovative therapeutic, diagnostic and sensory tools based on nanotechnology. He has eight years of industrial R&D experience working for Imperial Chemical Industries and United Breweries prior to joining CAMD. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, an international peer reviewed journal published by American Scientific Publishers, and the series editor for the ten-volume book series Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences (NtLS) published by Wiley-VCH. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, as a post doctoral fellow and at the Max Planck Institute for Carbon Research in Mülheim, Germany, as an invited scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in synthetic organic chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, India.
