Main description:

The fast developing field of nanomedicine uses a broad variety of materials to serve as delivery systems for drugs, genes, and diagnostic agents. This book is the first attempt to put under one cover all major available information about these materials, both still on experimental levels and already applied in patients.

Contents:

Organic Nanostructures: Polymeric Nanostructures: Synthetic Polymer-Drug Conjugates for Human Therapy. Dendrimer-Based Nanomaterials. Combinatorial Polymer and Lipidoid Libraries for Nanomedicine. Lipid-Based and Other Organic Structures: Liposomal Nanomedicines. Nanomedicines from Polymeric Amphiphiles. Materials for Nanoemulsions and Their Influence on the Biofate. Inorganic Nanostructures: Metal Structures: Biomedical Applications of Multifunctional Silica-Based Gold Nanoshells. Metal Oxide Nanoarchitectures for Biotemplating Application. Miscellaneous Istructures: Fluorescent Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications. Lipid Coated Microbubbles and Nanodroplets as Tools for Biomedical Nanotechnology. Biomimetics: Bio-Inspired Engineering of Human Tissue Scaffolding for Regenerative Medicine.