Description: Further DetailsTitle: Polymer-based NanostructuresCondition: NewSubtitle: Medical ApplicationsEAN: 9780854049561ISBN: 9780854049561Publisher: Royal Society of ChemistryFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/10/2010Description: Nanotechnology is about small things and medicine usually deals with bigger things - with patients and their diseases. The ultimate goal of all medical sciences is the healing of diseases whenever possible, otherwise the abatement of suffering. The first step of a successful medical treatment is the correct diagnosis of the disease or disease condition, based on clinical knowledge and experience and on diagnostic tools that give insight into macroscopic, microscopic, and biochemical properties of the disease process. Nanomaterials can improve currently available diagnostic applications in medicine and especially polymer-based nanostructures have an enormous potential to revolutionize the way how clinicians diagnose diseases correctly and efficiently. The second step when treating patients is a powerful and specific therapy that is low in side effects, that can prolong the survival of the patient or that can lower the burden of the disease. Again, polymer-based nanostructures are very promising novel tools that might change the way how certain diseases are being treated. This book combines both viewpoints and presents successful applications of nanotechnological constructs in medicine and the science behind the tools. Supramolecular nanometre-sized structures such as nanoparticles or vesicles built out of new synthetic polymeric materials have aroused enormous interest in recent years - both in chemical and pharmaceutical labs as well as in clinical medicine. They promise to be useful for novel or improved diagnostic and therapeutic applications for important diseases such as arteriosclerosis, cancer, infections, or autoimmune disorders. In the first part of this book, renowned researchers provide a detailed insight into both chemical and biological/pharmacological basics that have to be managed for successful applications of these nanostructures in human beings. In the second part, invited authors review the main literature in both diagnostic and therapeutic applications with polymer-based nanostructures that have already reached clinical practice or will enter it in the next few years. Key features include: -Multidisciplinary: The book is written by both clinicians from world-wide leading University Hospitals as well as researchers coming from natural sciences. Special effort was invested into comprehensibility across the traditional borders of medicine, pharmacology, and chemistry. -State-of-the-art: The book is filled with exciting contributions from some of the leading research groups in the field. This guarantees a clear emphasis on ongoing research and ground-breaking applications and projects -Structure: The book can be read from the beginning to the end, starting with basics that help to understand the current diagnostic and therapeutic applications of polymer-based nanostructures in medicine, ending with innovative multifunctional and "smart" nanostructures that might be the future of medicine. The way leads from solid foundations to nowadays applications and further to more futuristic approaches -References: The internationally renowned authors of the chapters have put great efforts into choosing only the most important and competitive papers for the reference lists. All major projects in this field are included - perfect for students or researchers that want to search the main literature thus avoiding the need to search through huge electronic databasesLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 726gContributor: Pavel Broz (Edited by), Violeta Malinova (Contributions by), Harry Kroto (Series edited by), Wolfgang Meier (Contributions by), Paul O'Brien (Series edited by), Harold Craighead (Series edited by), Emmanuel Akala (Contributions by), Seyed Moghimi (Contributions by), Jaspreet Vasir (Contributions by), Chiranjeevi Peetla (Contributions by), Vinod Labhasetwar (Contributions by), Lucy Kind (Contributions by), Mariusz Grzelakowski (Contributions by), Ed Uzgiris (Contributions by), Margaret Wheatley (Contributions by), Vladimir Torchilin (Contributions by), Omid Farokhzad (Contributions by), Shenshen Cai (Contributions by), David A Christian (Contributions by), Manu Tewari (Contributions by), Tamara Minko (Contributions by), Dennis E Discher (Contributions by), An Ranquin (Contributions by), Caroline De Vocht (Contributions by), Patrick Van Gelder (Contributions by), Yong-Eun Lee Koo (Contributions by), Daniel A Orringer (Contributions by), Raoul Kopelman (Contributions by)Genre: Technology & EngineeringBook Series: Nanoscience & Nanotechnology SeriesAuthor: Violeta MalinovaTopic: MedicineRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Polymer-based Nanostructures
Title: Polymer-based Nanostructures
Subtitle: Medical Applications
EAN: 9780854049561
ISBN: 9780854049561
Release Date: 02/10/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Raoul Kopelman (Contributions by)
Genre: Technology & Engineering
Topic: Medicine
Number of Pages: 388 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Polymer-Based Nanostructures : Medical Applications
Publisher: Royal Society of Real Chemistry, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: Nanoscience, Biotechnology, Allied Health Services / Medical Technology, Nanotechnology & Mems, Chemistry / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 72.8 Oz
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Science, Medical
Author: Violeta Malinova
Item Length: 9.2 in
Series: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
