Fundamental Biomedical Technologies

Editorial and Introduction to Volume 2 Ales Prokop, Yasuhiko Iwasaki and Atsushi Harada Part I Novel nanocarrier design and processing Proprietary nanofiber technologies and scale-up Stanislav Petrik Magnetically responsive (nano)biocomposites Ivo Safarik, Katerina Horska, Kristyna Pospiskova, Zdenka Maderova and Mirka Safarikova Zwitterionic nanocarriers for gene delivery Yu-Ju Shih, Ching-Wei Tsai, Lemmuel L Tayo and Yung Chang Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanocarriers as promising drug and gene delivery systems Gurusamy Saravanakumar and Won Jong Kim Photo-responsive polymeric nanocarriers for on-demand drug delivery Jian Ji and Qiao Jin Part II Nanocarrier characterization and function Considerations on uptake and intracellular trafficking of nanocarriers Seyed Moien Moghimi, Helene Andersen and Ladan Parhamitar Mucus as physiological barrier to intracellular delivery Eleonore Frohlich and Eva Roblegg Investigation of nanoparticles in biological objects by electron microscopy techniques Gabriela Kratosova, Katerina Dedkova, Ivo Vavra and Fedor Ciampor Gold nanoparticles for high resolution imaging in modern immunocytochemistry Adam Schrofel, Dusan Cmarko, Eva Bartova and Ivan Raska Design of functional polymers for intracellular drug nucleic acids delivery Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Hiroyasu Takemoto Membrane-domain-selective drug targeting based on lipid modification Takeshi Mori and Yoshiki Katayama Multifuntional protein-based nanoparticles for theragnosis Vannucci Luca, Elisabetta Falvo and Pierpaolo Ceci Cytocompatible phospholipid polymer for noninvasive nanodevice Tomohiro Konno Intracellular protein delivery using self-assembled amphiphilic polysaccharide nanogels Asako Shimoda, Shin-ichi Sawada and Kazunari Akiyoshi Part III Simulation for delivery and function Molecular dynamics simulations of polyplexes and lipoplexes Deniz Meneksedag-Erol, Chongbo Sun, Tian Tang, and Hasan Uludag Computational studies of highly pegylated sterically stabilized micelles self-assembly and drug solubilization Lela Vukovic' and Petr Kral Toward intracellular delivery and drug discovery Stochastic logic networks as efficient computational models for gene regulatory networks Peican Zhu, Jinghang Liang and Jie Han Part IV Nanocarriers for drug discovery and treatment Nanodiamonds as intracellular probes for imaging in biology and medicine Jitka Slegerova, Ivan Rehor, Jan Havlik, Helena Raabova, Eva Muchova and Petr Cigler Intracellular delivery of RNA using RNA-binding proteins or peptides Kazunori Watanabe and Takashi Ohtsuki Hyaluronic acid based nanofibers for wound dressing and drug delivery carriers Jana Ruzickova., Vladimiir Velebny, Jindrich Novak J., Katarzyna Szuszkiewicz, Katerina Knotkova, Marcela Foglarova and Marek Pokorny Potential of siRNA therapy in chronic myeloid leukemia Juliana Valencia-Serna, Breanne Landry, Xiaoyan Jiang and Hasan Uludag