The book entitled "Recent trends in Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering" precises many of the recent technological and research accomplishments in the area of Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering. Comprised in the book are presentations of state of art in the area, novel approaches of nanomedicine and nanotechnology, new challenges, and opportunities. Also discussed are the different types of nanomedicine drugs, their production, and commercial significance. Other topics enclosed are the use of natural and synthetic nanoparticles for the production nanomedicine drugs, different types of drug delivery systems, drug carriers, wound-healing antimicrobial activity, effect of natural materials in nanomedicine, toxicity of nanoparticles. As the heading specifies the book highlights various facets of nanomedicine and nanotechnology and their outputs for all community.
This novel book serves as an up to date record on the key findings, observations and fabrication of drugs related to nanomedicine and nanotechnology. It is intended to assist as a pioneer reference resource for all medical research fields as well as in science fields. The various chapters in this book are contributed by prominent researchers from academe, industry, and government-private research laboratories across the world. This book is a very valuable reference source for university and college faculties, professionals, post-doctoral research fellows, senior graduate students and researchers from R&D laboratories working in the area of health care and medical fields.
Chapter 1 gives a brief outline and an overview of the state of art in the area and also presents new challenges, opportunities, and commercial significance of this area. Chapter 2 discussed the detailed studies on nanomedicine and some technological approaches of this field. The authors explain the history of nanomedicine and nanoparticles used as in cancer therapy and also mention other topics such as drug delivery, nanorobotics, and future of xix xx Preface nanomedicine. Chapter 3 provides the benefits of chitosan and their derivatives used in drug delivery systems. And also mention the physio-chemical and biological properties of chitosan and their derivatives.
Chapter 4 focuses the design and characterization of lipid mediated nanoparticles for different biomedical applications. In vitro and In vivo studies of newly formulated lipid nanoparticles is also reported and important characterizations such as zeta potential, partition coefficient studies, differential scanning calorimetry, and release kinetics results are discussed. Chapter 5 presents the applications of nanogels for drug delivery systems. Properties, preparation, benefits and disadvantages of nanogels are also correlated in this chapter. In Chapter 6, biomedical applications of bio magnetic nanoparticles are presented. In this chapter, the authors reviews the effect of FeCo-based biomagnetic nanoparticles for enhance the biomedical and tissue engineering applications. Synthesis of Nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI) by chemical and biological methods are discussed in Chapter 7. This chapter mainly focuses the characterization of nZVI particles and their Bactericidal and Cytotoxic Activity. Chapter 8 gives the idea about Nanomotors-based carbon Nanotubes for Nano-delivery Systems. Chapter 9 highlights the drugs against human breast cancer cells. The authors explain the working principle of CNT, used against breast cancer cells. Preparation, characterization, and compatibility of CNT's are also discussed.
Phytosynthesis of silver nanoparticles and their antimicrobial efficacy are discussed in Chapter 10. This chapter includes various discussions about phytosynthesis, effect of environment parameters influencing phytosynthesis, probable mechanism for AgNP formation, different postulates of mechanism of AgNPs toxicity to bacteria. Chapter 11 is about the recreation of turmeric matrix with enhanced curcuminoids. This chapter includes preparation method of Cureit TM , isolation of curcumin, comparison of plasma curcumin level in Cureit TM and standard curcumin and following analysis such as NMR, XRD, FT-IR, SEM are also included. Chapter 12 is about the protection of human teeth. Taxonomy, pathogenecity, virulence, risk factors, and other organisms associated with caries are correlated with this chapter. Chapter 13 is focusing the Tissue engineering and wound healing applications. The last chapter discussed the toxicity of nanoparticles. In this chapter, authors review the effect of toxicity of nanomaterials in nanomedicines and how aquatic organisms are affected by nanoparticles.
Finally, Thanks to God for the successful completion of this book and the editors would like to express their honest gratitude to all the contributors of this book who provided excellent support for the fruitful completion of Preface xxi this endeavor. We appreciate them for their commitment and the genuineness for their contributions to this book. We would like to acknowledge all the reviewers who have taken their valuable time to make critical comments on each chapter. We thank 'River Publishers' who recognized the demand for this book and also acknowledge their support.
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