Nanotheranostics For Personalized Medicine
by Patrick Couvreur /
2016 / English / PDF
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The application of nanotechnology in the biomedical field, known as
nanomedicine, has gained much interest in the recent past, as one
of the strategies for selective drug delivery and diagnostic
purposes. The nanotheranostic approach aims to combine both
therapeutic and imaging/diagnostic functionalities; and is
characterized by a strong pluridisciplinarity where the chemistry
of materials, bioconjugate chemistry, pharmaceutical technology,
drug delivery, imaging, and pharmacology work together.
Nanotheranostics combines simultaneous non-invasive diagnosis and
treatment of diseases with the exciting possibility to monitor drug
release and distribution in real time, which could optimize
treatment outcomes in cancer and other severe diseases. Clinical
applications of nanotheranostics would enable earlier detection and
treatment of diseases, and earlier assessment of the response; thus
allowing to identify patients which would potentially respond to
therapy and have higher possibilities of a favorable
outcome.Nanotheranostics for Personalized Medicine provides an
integrated and transdisciplinary description of nanotheranostics.
Its coverage includes the principles of imaging techniques and
concrete examples of advances and challenges in the development of
nanotheranostics for personalized medicine.This book is written for
advanced undergraduates, graduates, as well as experimental
researchers in academia or the industry with an interest in this
emerging concept in the nanomedicine world.
The application of nanotechnology in the biomedical field, known as
nanomedicine, has gained much interest in the recent past, as one
of the strategies for selective drug delivery and diagnostic
purposes. The nanotheranostic approach aims to combine both
therapeutic and imaging/diagnostic functionalities; and is
characterized by a strong pluridisciplinarity where the chemistry
of materials, bioconjugate chemistry, pharmaceutical technology,
drug delivery, imaging, and pharmacology work together.
Nanotheranostics combines simultaneous non-invasive diagnosis and
treatment of diseases with the exciting possibility to monitor drug
release and distribution in real time, which could optimize
treatment outcomes in cancer and other severe diseases. Clinical
applications of nanotheranostics would enable earlier detection and
treatment of diseases, and earlier assessment of the response; thus
allowing to identify patients which would potentially respond to
therapy and have higher possibilities of a favorable
outcome.Nanotheranostics for Personalized Medicine provides an
integrated and transdisciplinary description of nanotheranostics.
Its coverage includes the principles of imaging techniques and
concrete examples of advances and challenges in the development of
nanotheranostics for personalized medicine.This book is written for
advanced undergraduates, graduates, as well as experimental
researchers in academia or the industry with an interest in this
emerging concept in the nanomedicine world.
