INIQUI   05448
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES PARA LA INDUSTRIA QUIMICA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
New trends in the antimicrobial agents delivery using nanoparticles
Autor/es:
JOSÉ M. BERMÚDEZ; MERCEDES VILLEGAS; ALICIA G. CID; NATALIA A. VILLEGAS; ANALÍA I. ROMERO; SANTIAGO D. PALMA
Libro:
Antimicrobial Nanoarchitenctonics - from Synthesis to applications
Editorial:
Elsevier
Referencias:
Año: 2017; p. 1 - 28
Resumen:
EL CAPITULO NO CUENTA CON UN RESUMEN. SE COPIA PARTE DE LA INTRODUCCIÓN.In recent years, there has been an unprecedented explosion of research and applications in the field of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has the potential to significantly improve the prevention, detection, and treatment of diseases.There is a tremendous amount of excitement that this field of nanotechnology will build momentum and produce new avenues for the treatment of diseases. Inherent to this optimism are the related challenges in the areas of medicalapplications. The word ?nanotechnology? began as a technical term, but recently it became a popular term representing the current state-of-theart technology. Until a few decades ago, it was uncommon to find words with the prefix nano(e.g., nanotechnology, nanomaterials, nanoparticles, nanoemulsions, and nanotubes). It is highly noticeable how the word nano has been dynamically incorporated into our scientific language and even into our day-to-day lives.This can be explained by the evident advantages of working at the nanoscale level compared with the traditional micro/macroscale level. The term nanotechnology was used for the first time in 1974 by Norio Taniguchi to describe the intimate engineering (atoms or molecules) of the matter. The most common consensus, however, is that nanotechnology investigates and manipulates materials and phenomena where at least one length scale is below 100 nm. Some early studies reported the potential of nanoscale drug-delivery systems, and since then a myriad of these delivery systems have been documented (Khanna and Speiser, 1969; Krause et al., 1985). The biomedical and pharmaceutical fields have been utilizing nanomaterials for various applications, such as tissue engineering, gene therapy, chemotherapy, peptide/ protein delivery, molecular imaging, and highthroughput screening/assay, so the exact definition of nanotechnology is difficult to make solely based on size.