Advanced bioceramics in nanomedicine and tissue engineering : special topic volume with invited peer reviewed papers only / edited by M. Vallet-Regi and M. Vila.

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English
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Stafa-Zurich : Trans Tech Publications, ©2010.
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1 online resource (viii, 378 pages) : illustrations.

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Nanoscience is revolutionizing the design of medical devices, tissue scaffolding and drug-delivery systems.²⁶ New discoveries regarding nano-system, made in other research areas, have opened up the possibility of using them in biomedicine. However, such nanoscience and its possibilities, which sometimes border on science fiction, have to be kept in perspective so as not to lose sight of the limitations with respect to safety that applications within the human body impose. Nevertheless, nanomedicine focuses nowadays upon the treatment of cancer, upon tissue regeneration, and upon diagnosis and imaging. The main goal of this book is to bring together some of the advanced new trends in biomedicine that involve potential nano candidates for future treatments in the control of biological systems and in regenerative medicine. It will become an essential guide to the subject.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • Carbon nanotubes: a solution for processing smart biomaterials
  • Carbon nanotube composite scaffolds and coatings for tissue engineering applications
  • Formulating nanomedicines: focus on carbon nanotubes as novel nanoexcipients
  • Driving forces and consequences of the adsorption of proteins to carbon nanotubes
  • High resolution electron microscopy: a powerful tool to characterize nanotubes
  • Bioactive glass scaffolds with hierarchical structure and their 3D characterization
  • Design of hierarchically porous materials for bone tissue regeneration
  • Generating porous ceramic scaffolds: processing and properties
  • Calcium phosphate ceramics as bone drug-combined devices
  • Bioactive composites based on calcium phosphates for bone regeneration
  • Dendritic macromolecules: new possibilities for advanced bioceramics
  • Biomineralization of polymer scaffolds
  • Functionalized calcium phosphate nanoparticles for biomedical application
  • On cancer nanotechnology
  • Multifunctional nano and microparticles for drug delivery systems
  • Drug targeting and other recent applications of magnetic carriers in therapeutics.
ISBN
  • 9781613446775 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1613446772 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9783038133520 ((electronic bk.))
  • 3038133523 ((electronic bk.))
LCCN
2011499545
OCLC
671240014
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