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Nanomedicine: Present Accomplishments and Far-Reaching Promises
PART I. INTRODUCTION TO NANOSCIENCE IN MEDICINE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Challenges and Opportunities of Nanotechnology for Human Health
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and the Armory for the Twenty-First Century Health Care
Nanomedicine Activities in the United States and Worldwide
PART II. LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
Challenges in Cardiovascular Treatments Using Nanotechnology-Based Approaches
Smart Container for Targeted Drug Delivery
Human Nano-Vesicles in Physiology and Pathology
Challenges and Risks of Nanotechnology in Medicine: An Immunologist´s Point of View
PART III. SECOND MOST COMMON CAUSE OF DEATH: CANCER
Challenges of Applying Targeted Nanostructures with Multifunctional Properties in Cancer Treatments
Highly Conformal Radiotherapy Using Protons
Self-Organization on a Chip: From Nanoscale Actin Assemblies to Tumor Spheroids
The Nanomechanical Signature of Tissues in Health and Disease
PART IV. MOST COMMON DISEASES: CARIES, MUSCUSKELETAL DISEASES, INCONTINENCE, ALLERGIES
Revealing the Nano-Architecture of Human Hard and Soft Tissues by Spatially Resolved Hard X-Ray Scattering
Regenerative Dentistry Using Stem Cells and Nanotechnology
Nanostructured Polymers for Medical Applications
Nanotechnology in the Treatment of Incontinence
Nanomedicine in Dermatology: Nanotechnology in Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapy
PART V. BENEFITTING PATIENTS
Therapeutic Development and the Evolultion of Precision Medicine
Benefits from Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: Benefitting Patients
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Unique in combining the expertise of practitioners from university hospitals and that of academic researchers, this timely monograph presents selected topics catering specifically to the needs and interests of natural scientists and engineers as well as physicians who are concerned with developing nanotechnology-based treatments to improve human health.
To this end, the book cover the materials aspects of nanomedicine, such as the hierarchical structure of biological materials, the imaging of hard and soft tissues and, in particular, concrete examples of nanotechnology-based approaches in modern medical treatments. The whole is rounded off by a discussion of the opportunities and risks of using nanotechnology and nanomaterials in medicine, backed by case studies taken from real life.

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