Nanomaterial Impacts on Cell Biology and Medicine /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Capco, David G. (Editor), Chen, Yongsheng (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 811
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cell biology.; Nanotechnology.; Materials science.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Cell Biology.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

The rapidly developing field of nanomaterials has expanded in many commercial areas.  More recent studies have begun to provide a foundation for understanding how nanomaterials influence cells and how they also can serve as methodological tools for studies in medicine and cell biology, include resea...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Presence in, and release of, nanomaterials from consumer products
• 2 Nanoparticle aggregation
• 3 Influences of nanomaterials on the barrier function of epithelial cells
• 4 Engineered nanoparticles induced brush border disruption in a human model of the intestinal epithelium
• 5 Nanoparticles: Cellular uptake and cytotoxicity. -6 Atomic force microscopy study of the interaction of DNA and nanoparticles
• 7 Intracellular signal modulation by nanomaterials
• 8 Nanomaterials: Impacts on cells and cell organelles
• 9 Design, synthesis, and functionalization of nanoparticles for therapeutic drug delivery
• 10 Preparation of nanoscale pulmonary drug delivery formulations by spray drying
• 11 Nanomedicine: The Promise and Challenges in Cancer Chemotherapy
• 12 Transgenerational effects of NMs
• 13 Stem cells and nanomaterials
• Index.