About the Book
1. What is Cancer Nanotechnology? Stephen R. Grobmyer, Nobutaka Iwakuma, Parvesh Sharma, and Brij M. Moudgil 2. Molecular Targeted Therapy for Cancer and Nanotechnology Steven N. Hochwald 3. Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) Effect for Anticancer Nano-Medicine Drug Targeting Khaled Greish 4. Nanoparticle Characterization for Cancer Nanotechnology and Other Biological Applications Scott C. Brown, Maria Palazuelos, Parvesh Sharma, Kevin W. Powers, Stephen M. Roberts, Stephen R. Grobmyer, and Brij M. Moudgil 5. Multimodal Nanoparticulate Bioimaging Contrast Agents Parvesh Sharma, Amit Singh, Scott C. Brown, Niclas Bengtsson, Glenn A. Walter, Stephen R. Grobmyer, Nobutaka Iwakuma, Swadeshmukul Santra, Edward W. Scott, and Brij M. Moudgil 6. Gold Nanocages for Cancer Imaging and Therapy Leslie Au, Jingyi Chen, Lihong V. Wang, and Younan Xia 7. Nanoshells for Photothermal Cancer Therapy Jennifer G. Morton, Emily S. Day, Naomi J. Halas, and Jennifer L. West 8. Gold Nanorods: Multifunctional Agents for Cancer Imaging and Therapy Alexander Wei, Alexei P. Leonov, and Qingshan Wie 9. Polymeric Micelles: Polyethylene Glycol-Phosphatidylethanolamine (PEG-PE)-Based Micelles as an Example Rupa R. Sawant and Vladimir P. Torchilin 10. Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging Swadeshmukul Santra 11. Polymeric Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery Juliana M. Chan, Pedro M. Valencia, Liangfang Zhang, Robert Langer, and Omid C. Farokhzad 12. Synthesis, Characterization, and Functionalization of Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging Gary A. Craig, Peter J. Allen, and Michael D. Mason 13. Identification of Pancreatic Cancer Specific Cell-Surface Markers for Development of Targeting Ligands David L. Morse, Galen Hostetter, Yoganand Balagurunathan, Robert J. Gillies, and Haiyong Han 14. Preparation and Characterization of Doxorubicin Liposomes Guoqin Niu, Brian Cogburn, and Jeffrey Hughes 15. PEGylated Nanocarriers for Systemic Delivery N.K. Jain and Manoj Nahar 16. Nanoparticle-Aptamer Conjugates for Cancer Cell Targeting and Detection M.-Carmen Estevez, Yu-Fen Huang, Huaizhi Kang, Megan B. O'Donoghue, Suwussa Bamrungsap, Jilin Yan, Xiaolan Chen, and Weihong Tan 17. Targeting of Nanoparticles: Folate Receptor Sumith A. Kularatne and Philip S. Low 18. Magnetic Aerosol Targeting of Nanoparticles to Cancer: Nanomagnetosols Carsten Rudolph, Bernhard Gleich, and Andreas W. Flemmer 19. LHRH-Targeted Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapeutics Tamara Minko, Mahesh L. Patil, Min Zhang, Jayant J. Khandare, Maha Saad, Pooja Chandna, and Oleh Taratula 20. Antibody Targeting of Nanoparticles to Tumor Specific Receptors: Immunoliposomes Miriam Rothdiener, Julia Beuttler, Sylvia K.E. Messerschmidt, and Roland E. Kontermann 21. Photoacoustic Tomography for Imaging Nanoparticles Zhen Yuan and Huabei Jiang 22. Current Applications of Nanotechnology for Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Apoptosis Gustav J. Strijkers, Geralda A.F. van Tilborg, Tessa Geelen, Chris P.M. Reutelingsperger, and Klaas Nicolay 23. Applications of Gold Nanorods for Cancer Imaging and Photothermal Therapy Xiaohua Huang, Ivan H. El-Sayed, and Mostafa A. El-Sayed 24. Use of Nanoparticles for Targeted, Noninvasive Thermal Destruction of Malignant Cells Paul Cherukuri and Steven A. Curley 25. Colloidal Gold: A Novel Nanoparticle for Targeted Cancer Therapeutics Anathea C. Powell, Giulio F. Paciotti, and Steven K. Libutti 26. Liposomal Doxorubicin and
