TY - BOOK AU - Ferrari,Mauro AU - Desai,Tejal AU - Bhatia,Sangeeta ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology: Volume III Therapeutic Micro/Nanotechnology SN - 9780387258447 U1 - 610.28 23 PY - 2007/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Springer US KW - ENGINEERING KW - MEDICINE KW - BIOTECHNOLOGY KW - BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING KW - NANOTECHNOLOGY KW - BIOPHYSICS AND BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS KW - BIOMEDICINE GENERAL N1 - Cell-based Therapeutics -- Nano- and Micro-Technology to Spatially and Temporally Control Proteins for Neural Regeneration -- 3-D Fabrication Technology for Tissue Engineering -- Designed Self-assembling Peptide Nanobiomaterials -- At the Interface: Advanced Microfluidic Assays for Study of Cell Function -- Multi-phenotypic Cellular Arrays for Biosensing -- Mems and Neurosurgery -- Drug Delivery -- Vascular Zip Codes and Nanoparticle Targeting -- Engineering Biocompatible Quantum Dots for Ultrasensitive, Real-Time Biological Imaging and Detection -- Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications of Metal Nanoshells -- Nanoporous Microsystems for Islet Cell Replacement -- Medical Nanotechnology and Pulmonary Pathology -- Nanodesigned Pore-Containing Systems for Biosensing and Controlled Drug Release -- Transdermal Drug Delivery using Low-Frequency Sonophoresis -- Microdevices for Oral Drug Delivery -- Nanoporous Implants for Controlled Drug Delivery -- Molecular Surface Engineering for the Biological Interface -- Micro and Nanoscale Smart Polymer Technologies in Biomedicine -- Supported Lipid Bilayers as Mimics for Cell Surfaces and as Tools in Biotechnology -- Engineering Cell Adhesion -- Cell Biology on a Chip: A Microfluidic Cell Culture Laboratory N2 - Volume 3 of the multi-volume reference, BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology, will be the first comprehensive treatment of the emerging area of therapeutic micro- and nanotechnology. Subjects covered include: cell-based therapeutics, regenerative medicine - merging cells with micro- and nanosystems, and integrating MEMS with cells and tissues; Drug delivery - intravascular nanoparticles for drug targeting and nonvascular delivery (implantable, oral, inhalable); molecular surface engineering for the biological interface, biomolecule patterning and cell patterning. This volume is very well illustrated with many of the figures in color UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b136240 ER -