Nanomedicine and the Cardiovascular System

Description

The nanosciences are a rapidly expanding field of research with applicability to all areas of health and disease prevention, including cardiology in its broadest sense. This book covers a variety of nano subjects and areas as applied to the heart and circulatory system. There are state-of-the-art chapters on nanoparticles, nanowires, nanoscale topography, nanosensors, nanospheres, nanospin probes, nanomatrices and nanobubbles to name but a few topics. Their applications to cardiovascular disorders and their treatments are also described.

Table of Contents

General Methods and Applications

• Nanoparticle Contrast Agents for Cardiovascular Medical Imaging
  David P. Cormode, Ahmed Klink, Zahi A. Fayad and Willem J. M. Mulder
• Cell Sheet Nanotechnology: Engineering and Applications to Cardiology
  Yuji Haraguchi, Tatsuya Shimizu,Masayuki Yamato, Ross J. Hunter and Teruo Okano
• Nanowire Field-effect Transistors and their Applications to Cardiology
  Chia-Chang Tsai, Colin R. Martin,Yen-Bin Liu, Chien-Yuan Pan and Yit-Tsong Chen
• Atomic Force Microscopy and the Detection of Nanosized Blood Microparticles
  Y. Yuana, M.E. Kuil,T.H. Oosterkamp, R.M. Bertina and S. Osanto
• Nanobiotechnology Based Blood Substitutes and the Cardiovascular Systems in Transfusion Medicine:
  Thomas Ming Swi Chang
• Collagen Scaffolds and their Application to Cardiology—The Importance of Matrix Interactions and Nanoscale Topography
  Lynn Donlon and Daniel Frankel
• Cardiac Biomarker and Nano Wire Sensor Arrays
  Guo-Jun Zhang
• Electrical Recording from Cardiac Cells and Tissue using Nanowire Transistors
  Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Bozhi Tian and Charles M. Lieber
• Nanospheres and Applications to Cardiology. Multifunctionality: The Key of Future Success
  Andrea Masotti
• Nanomonitor Technology and its Applicability to Diagnosis of Cardiac Disease
  S. Prasad, M. Bothara, R.K. Reddy, Thomas Barrett and John Carruthers
• Nanospin Probes and Applications to Cardiology
  Valery V. Khramtsov and Denis A. Komarov
• Native Endothelium Mimicking Nanomatrices and Applications
  Adinarayana Andukuri, Chidinma P. Anakwenze, Bryan A. Blakeney and Ho-Wook Jun
• Nanofibre Based Vascular Grafts
  Sarra de Valence, Beat H. Walpoth and Michael Möller

Focused areas, treatments and diseases

• Nanoparticle Processing of Cholesterol-Lowering Drug
  Toshiro Fukami, Toyofumi Suzuki, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy and Kazuo Tomono
• Intratracheal Gene Transfer using Polyplex Nanomicelles and their Application to Cardiology
  Noriyuki Iwamoto and Mariko Hrada-Shiba
• Use of Microbubbles and Nanobubbles for Diagnostic Vascular Molecular Imaging and Therapeutic Applications
  Chih-Hsien Lee, Cheng-An J. Lin, Rajkumar Rajendram and Walter H. Chang
• Multifunctional Nanoagents for the Detection and Treatment of Thromboses
  S. Sibel Erdem and Jason R. McCarthy
• Biodegradable Nanofibers in Cardiovascular Medicine: Drug Delivery Application
  Masato Mutsuga, Aika Yamawaki-Ogata, Yuji Narita, Makoto Satake, Hiroaki Kaneko and Yuichi Ueda
• Europium Hydroxide Nanorods and Angiogenic Processes
  Chitta Ranjan Patra
• Iron Oxide Nano Particles and Cardiac Stem Cells
  K.W. Au, April M. Chow, Ed X. Wu and H.F. Tse
• Nitric Oxide from Nanoparticles and Applications to Cardiovascular Health
  Pedro Cabrales, Adam J. Friedman and Joel M. Friedman